{"id":4652,"date":"2020-02-19T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:16:02","slug":"audio-david-kinnaman-on-barnas-state-of-the-church-2020-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/audio-david-kinnaman-on-barnas-state-of-the-church-2020-report","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: David Kinnaman on Barna&#8217;s State of the Church 2020 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday, February 19, Paul spoke with the President of the Barna Group, David Kinnaman, about some of the findings in their State of the Church 2020 Report. The audio is below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnamen_2192020.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:39% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/kinnaman.jpeg 1298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidkinnaman\">David Kinnaman<\/a><\/strong> is the author of the bestselling books&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.barna.com\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/faith-for-exiles\">Faith For Exiles<\/a>,<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.barna.com\/products\/good-faith?_pos=2&amp;_sid=1f5d2f8a7&amp;_ss=r\"><em>Good Faith<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.barna.com\/products\/you-lost-me-paperback?_pos=1&amp;_sid=52beb9a4b&amp;_ss=r\"><em>You Lost Me<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.barna.com\/products\/unchristian?_pos=8&amp;_sid=52beb9a4b&amp;_ss=r\"><em>unChristian<\/em><\/a>. He is president of Barna Group, a leading research and communications company that works with churches, nonprofits, and businesses ranging from film studios to financial services. Since 1995, David has directed interviews with nearly one million individuals and overseen hundreds of U.S. and global research studies. He and his wife live in California with their three children.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BARNA: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/02\/10\/whats-the-state-of-the-church-barna-group-launches-project-to-survey-local-national-church\/\">State of the Church 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>According to the report, three-quarters (72%) of Protestant pastors identify the impact of \u201cwatered down gospel teachings\u201d on Christianity in the U.S. as a major concern. That&#8217;s especially true for pastors in non-mainline denominations (78%). Mainline pastors (59%) are less concerned.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About two-thirds (66%) of pastors say a major concern for Christianity is \u201cculture\u2019s shift to a secular age,&#8221; followed by 63% who identified &#8220;poor discipleship models&#8221; as a major concern and 58% who named &#8220;addressing complex social issues with biblical integrity,&#8221; the survey says.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/current-perceptions\/\">Five Trends Defining American&#8217;s Relationship to Churches<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/stateofthechurch\/\">MORE INFORMATION ON BARNA&#8217;S STATE OF THE CHURCH 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 19, Paul spoke with the President of the Barna Group, David Kinnaman, about some of the findings in their State of the Church 2020 Report. The audio is below: David Kinnaman is the author of the bestselling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/audio-david-kinnaman-on-barnas-state-of-the-church-2020-report\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}