Church attendance in the United States

[jon-nyc]

Interesting. Makes sense though.

[89th]

I mean, it's suspicious that a Pope did the study.

[Horace]

G Pope is his rap name.

[LuFins Dad]

How do you define “going to church”?

The Mega Church in my neighborhood typically has 20K streaming their services live, and can get up to 50K that watch it on YouTube later.

Link to video

My guess is that those people would probably say they go to church in a survey…

[jon-nyc]

Fair point. But I’ll bet there’s a lot that say they are regular church (or gym) attendees that go only rarely.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Church attendance in the United States:

Fair point. But I’ll bet there’s a lot that say they are regular church (or gym) attendees that go only rarely.

Oh, for sure. But I don’t think that you needed a highly unreliable cell phone gps data study to make that claim.

[Axtremus]

Maybe 3 out of 4 charge goers put their phones in "airplane mode" when attending church out of respect and consideration for fellow congregants?

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Church attendance in the United States:

Maybe 3 out of 4 charge goers put their phones in "airplane mode" when attending church out of respect and consideration for fellow congregants?

Nope, but don’t think that doesn’t happen as well. Plus, a not insubstantial number of churchgoers are older and more rural. While @George-K and our other Geezers are pretty hip to technology, they are the exception and not the rule.

I had a 2 hour lecture on the pros and cons of geolocation for tracking attendance when I was on the marketing committee for Workhouse Arts. It was very helpful in determining things like where our event attendees were coming from and going to before and after the various events to help us target our outreach, it wasn’t reliable in determining attendance at all.