Thom Rainer, President & CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources, recently shared several statistics from Brad Waggoner’s The Shape of the Faith to Come (2008), including “47 percent of Protestant churchgoers admitted to just ‘going through the motions’ often during the singing and prayer portions of worship services.”
So What?
How might your congregational leadership begin a conversation about this matter? What is an appropriate response to the statistic that roughly half of those attending your congregation’s service of worship regularly feel that their participation in worship can be characterized as simply “going through the motions”?