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David Roozen, Director
Hartford Seminary Institute
For Religion Research
roozen@hartsem.edu
Three Fundamental
Religious Changes in
America and What They
Mean for Parish Ministry.
Hartford Seminary
April 22, 2013
Not A Good Half Century
For the United States
1941 -- 2004
In Regard to Religious Change:
Episcopal
Presbyterian-USA
United Church of Christ
Church of the Brethren
Evangelical Lutheran-ELCA
Reformed Church of Am
United Methodist
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Cumberland Presbyterian
Evangelical Covenant
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod
N.A. Baptist Conf
7th Day Adventist
Southern Baptist Conv
Wisc Evang Lutheran Synod
Assemblies of God
Church of God-Anderson
Church of God-Cleveland
Church of Nazarene
Free Methoddist of N.A.
Salvation Army
Declines Have Accelerated in the
Last Decade
DAVID ROOZEN ROOZEN@HARTSEM.EDU
Based on data from the Yearbook of
American and Canadian Churches
Five Year Rate of Growth or Decline in Membership
A Steep Drop in
Financial Health
And, a Nearly
Equal Drop in
The Spiritual
Vitality of
Congregations
And It Is Not Just
A Matter of People in the Pews,
But Also:
But The Declines Are Only The
“Glass Half Empty” Take On The Decade,
which also includes, among other negatives:
 Continuing high levels of conflict, and
Aging memberships.
On The Positive Side, The Decade Brought:
1. A continued increase in innovative, adaptive
worship
2. A surprisingly rapid adoption of electronic
technologies
3. A dramatic increase in racial/ethnic
congregations, many for immigrant groups
4. A general increase in the breadth of both
member-oriented and mission oriented
programs
The decade also gave
Witness to:
5. An increase in
connection across
faith
traditions
6. A twist in the
historical pattern
of religious
involvement in the
electoral process
www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org
Within This Tangled Swirl Of
American Religious Change, Our Brief Time
Today Only Allows A Very Cursory
Look At Three Threads:
 The Ascendance of Innovative Worship
 The Corrosive, Yet Also Potentially
Energizing Effect of Conflict
 The Opportunities and Challenges of
Increasing Racial/Ethnic Diversity
Further Resources on Congregations & Change
Hartford Seminary Courses and Events, www.hartsem.edu
Webinar: Supersized Believers: What Megachurches Tell Us
About The Spiritual State of Americans And How to
ReachThem Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 8 p.m.
Course: American Religious Trends: Changing World,
Changing Ministry Monday, June 3 through Friday,
June 7, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
Hartford Institute Publications, www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org/
The Other 80 Percent: Turning Your Church's
Spectators into Active Participants
Scott Thumma, Warrant Bird
FACTs on Growth 2010
C. Kirk Hadaway
Most recent and encyclopedic book on religious
change in the united States
American Grace: How Religion Divides and
Unites Us Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
A Final Word of Preface To help Set
The Broader Context:
Three Foundational, MEGA-TRENDS
Changing America’s Religious
Landscape
• From WORD
to SPIRIT
• From PROPHETIC
to POLITICAL
• From MISSION
to WORSHIP
DAVID ROOZEN
Of these, the transition from
Word to Spirit
Is the Most Profound and Foundational
It is not uncommon – indeed it is most typical – for
persons to think of religion as a collection of beliefs
and doctrines most closely tied to, if not directly
drawn from, a sacred Scripture. The beliefs,
doctrines and scripture are cognitive and objective
(i.e., they are external to the believer). Worship in
such a tradition tends to emphasize preaching and
the style of preaching is expository. This is what I
mean by a religious orientation grounded in
THE WORD.
In contrast, we are becoming increasingly aware that
many persons practice religion more in terms of a
liturgical or personal relationship to God. Such an
approach is more experiential and subjective. (i.e., it
is internal to the believer). Worship in such a
tradition emphasizes ritual and/or prayer and the
gifts of the spirit. If preaching is included it tends to
be narrative. This is what I mean by a religious
perspective oriented to THE SPIRIT.
The transition from WORD to SPIRIT is, most
profoundly, a transition from an EXTERNAL to an
INTERNAL locus of authority, and part and partial of
this transition is religion as CHOICE.
Baby boomer carried Cultural Revolution of
the 1960s with its:
 Cultural individualism
 Ethic of self-fulfillment
 Anti-establismentarianism
 Church as choice
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the
Remaking of American Religion
Wade Clark Roof
The ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” of the
Millenials.
Souls in Transition: The Religious and
Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Christian Smith
With Patricia Snell
Still the best single book for understanding
the implications of different generationally-
related cultural worlds for congregational
life!
U. S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches : A
Key to Researching People in the 90's
Tex Sample
• From PROPHETIC
to POLITICAL
DAVID ROOZEN
• From MISSION
to WORSHIP
DAVID ROOZEN
A Continued Increase in Innovative,
Adaptive Worship
‘Nowhere is the democratization of the sacred more evident
than in the music sung in new paradigm churches. It is
populist, written by common people whose lives have been
transformed. And it is contemporary, drawing on the
musical forms of popular culture. Social movements, both
secular and religious, have often been accompanied by a
radical shift in musical expression. Music reflects the deep
unconscious structures of a culture, and correspondingly,
the music of social movements signals discord with those
routinized structures. Movement music simultaneously
symbolizes a break with the old and provides a source of
cohesion for those choosing the new way.”
Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity
In the New Millennium, Donald E. Miller
But It Is Really Innovative Worship That
Pays The Strongest Vitality Dividend
 Think for a moment – What is the most
magnificent & inspirational worship service you
have ever experienced?
 Would your worship attendance increase if every
service was like this? Would the depth of your
spiritual commitment deepen?
 What kind of worship might do the same things for
your kids/ grand children/ nieces or nephews?
Continuing
High
Levels of
Conflict
65.1%
64.2%
0.0%
25.0%
50.0%
75.0%
2000 2010
%
Congregations
Conflict In One or More of
Four Key Areas* in Past
Five Years
*Four Key Areas:
Worship
Finances
Program Priorities
Leadership
 No Conflict  Some Minor Conflict  Some Serious Conflict
Conflict Typically Thought Of As, And Can In Fact Be
A Bad Thing
Consequences of Conflict
69%
25%
39%
0%
25%
50%
75%
Some
M embers
Lef t
Leader Lef t * M oney
W it hheld
%
of
Congregations
that
Reported
Any
Conflict
But The Most Significant Implication of
Conflict for Congregations Today
Is Conflicts Relationship To CHANGE
 Vitality and Growth
Typically Require Change
 Change Typically
Produces Conflict
 Vitality and Growth
Typically Require
Managing Conflict
33.7%
50.1%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Little or None Some or A Lot
32.4% 32.5%
29.1%
55.8%
51.7%
37.6%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
None Minor Serious
Little or
None
Some Or A
Lot
Percent Rapid Attendance Growth
Worship Change In Past 5 Years
11.8%
21.8%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Little or None Some or A Lot
Worship Change In Past 5 Years
Percent Serious Worship Conflict
Percent Rapid Attendance Growth
Worship Conflict
Worship Change
Resolving Church Conflicts:
A Case Study Approach for
Local Congregations
by G. Douglass Lewis
26%
23%
16%
15%
10%
11%
0%
10%
20%
30%
Family Feeling Purposefulness
%
Congregations:
Serious
Conflict
over
Worship Buffers Against Serious Conflict
Low Moderate High
Insights Into: Congregational Conflict
Is your congregation going through a period of
conflict that you aren't sure how to handle? Or are
you interested in preparing to better handle future
conflicts? This publication offers research, tips and
resources to help clergy, seminarians, and
congregational leaders deal constructively with this
inevitable part of congregational life.
Download it @ www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org
Fortunately, There Are
Resources For Dealing
With Conflict
Buffers Against Serious Conflict
Considerably More
Ethnic
22.6%
7.3%
30.8%
29.3%
11.4%
37.0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
All
Congregations
Oldline
Protestant
Evangelical
Protestant
%
Congregations
2000
2010
Predominantly Racial/Ethnic Minority
Congregations:
% Of All U.S. Congregations
And, More
Likely To
Be Growing
Ten percent Or More
5-Year Attendance Growth
7.5%
13.7%
0%
5%
10%
15%
1998 2010
Percent Multiracial Congregations
The Number of Multiracial
Congregations is also Increasing
(Congregations with no more than 80% of
participants from any given racial/ethnic group)
7.4%
14.4%
27.1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
Oldline
Prot
Evang
Prot
Cath &
Ortho
World
Relig
36.9%
47.9%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Not MultiracialMultiracial
2010 Percent Multiracial
Congregations By Family
Percent Rapidly Growing
35.4%
Further Resources on Congregations & Change
Hartford Seminary Courses and Events, www.hartsem.edu
Webinar: Supersized Believers: What Megachurches Tell Us
About The Spiritual State of Americans And How to
ReachThem Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 8 p.m.
Course: American Religious Trends: Changing World,
Changing Ministry Monday, June 3 through Friday,
June 7, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
Hartford Institute Publications, www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org/
The Other 80 Percent: Turning Your Church's
Spectators into Active Participants
Scott Thumma, Warrant Bird
FACTs on Growth 2010
C. Kirk Hadaway
A Decade of Change in American
Congregations: 2000 - 2010
David A. Roozen
Most recent and encyclopedic book on religious
change in the united States
American Grace: How Religion Divides and
Unites Us Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
David Roozen, Director
Hartford Seminary Institute
For Religion Research
roozen@hartsem.edu

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Three Fundamental Religious Changes in America and What They Mean for Parish Ministry.

  • 1. David Roozen, Director Hartford Seminary Institute For Religion Research roozen@hartsem.edu Three Fundamental Religious Changes in America and What They Mean for Parish Ministry. Hartford Seminary April 22, 2013
  • 2. Not A Good Half Century For the United States 1941 -- 2004 In Regard to Religious Change:
  • 3. Episcopal Presbyterian-USA United Church of Christ Church of the Brethren Evangelical Lutheran-ELCA Reformed Church of Am United Methodist Christian and Missionary Alliance Cumberland Presbyterian Evangelical Covenant Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod N.A. Baptist Conf 7th Day Adventist Southern Baptist Conv Wisc Evang Lutheran Synod Assemblies of God Church of God-Anderson Church of God-Cleveland Church of Nazarene Free Methoddist of N.A. Salvation Army Declines Have Accelerated in the Last Decade DAVID ROOZEN ROOZEN@HARTSEM.EDU Based on data from the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches Five Year Rate of Growth or Decline in Membership
  • 4. A Steep Drop in Financial Health And, a Nearly Equal Drop in The Spiritual Vitality of Congregations And It Is Not Just A Matter of People in the Pews, But Also:
  • 5. But The Declines Are Only The “Glass Half Empty” Take On The Decade, which also includes, among other negatives:  Continuing high levels of conflict, and Aging memberships. On The Positive Side, The Decade Brought: 1. A continued increase in innovative, adaptive worship 2. A surprisingly rapid adoption of electronic technologies 3. A dramatic increase in racial/ethnic congregations, many for immigrant groups 4. A general increase in the breadth of both member-oriented and mission oriented programs The decade also gave Witness to: 5. An increase in connection across faith traditions 6. A twist in the historical pattern of religious involvement in the electoral process www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org
  • 6. Within This Tangled Swirl Of American Religious Change, Our Brief Time Today Only Allows A Very Cursory Look At Three Threads:  The Ascendance of Innovative Worship  The Corrosive, Yet Also Potentially Energizing Effect of Conflict  The Opportunities and Challenges of Increasing Racial/Ethnic Diversity Further Resources on Congregations & Change Hartford Seminary Courses and Events, www.hartsem.edu Webinar: Supersized Believers: What Megachurches Tell Us About The Spiritual State of Americans And How to ReachThem Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 8 p.m. Course: American Religious Trends: Changing World, Changing Ministry Monday, June 3 through Friday, June 7, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m Hartford Institute Publications, www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org/ The Other 80 Percent: Turning Your Church's Spectators into Active Participants Scott Thumma, Warrant Bird FACTs on Growth 2010 C. Kirk Hadaway Most recent and encyclopedic book on religious change in the united States American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
  • 7. A Final Word of Preface To help Set The Broader Context: Three Foundational, MEGA-TRENDS Changing America’s Religious Landscape • From WORD to SPIRIT • From PROPHETIC to POLITICAL • From MISSION to WORSHIP DAVID ROOZEN
  • 8. Of these, the transition from Word to Spirit Is the Most Profound and Foundational It is not uncommon – indeed it is most typical – for persons to think of religion as a collection of beliefs and doctrines most closely tied to, if not directly drawn from, a sacred Scripture. The beliefs, doctrines and scripture are cognitive and objective (i.e., they are external to the believer). Worship in such a tradition tends to emphasize preaching and the style of preaching is expository. This is what I mean by a religious orientation grounded in THE WORD. In contrast, we are becoming increasingly aware that many persons practice religion more in terms of a liturgical or personal relationship to God. Such an approach is more experiential and subjective. (i.e., it is internal to the believer). Worship in such a tradition emphasizes ritual and/or prayer and the gifts of the spirit. If preaching is included it tends to be narrative. This is what I mean by a religious perspective oriented to THE SPIRIT. The transition from WORD to SPIRIT is, most profoundly, a transition from an EXTERNAL to an INTERNAL locus of authority, and part and partial of this transition is religion as CHOICE.
  • 9. Baby boomer carried Cultural Revolution of the 1960s with its:  Cultural individualism  Ethic of self-fulfillment  Anti-establismentarianism  Church as choice Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion Wade Clark Roof The ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” of the Millenials. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults Christian Smith With Patricia Snell Still the best single book for understanding the implications of different generationally- related cultural worlds for congregational life! U. S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches : A Key to Researching People in the 90's Tex Sample
  • 10. • From PROPHETIC to POLITICAL DAVID ROOZEN
  • 11. • From MISSION to WORSHIP DAVID ROOZEN
  • 12. A Continued Increase in Innovative, Adaptive Worship ‘Nowhere is the democratization of the sacred more evident than in the music sung in new paradigm churches. It is populist, written by common people whose lives have been transformed. And it is contemporary, drawing on the musical forms of popular culture. Social movements, both secular and religious, have often been accompanied by a radical shift in musical expression. Music reflects the deep unconscious structures of a culture, and correspondingly, the music of social movements signals discord with those routinized structures. Movement music simultaneously symbolizes a break with the old and provides a source of cohesion for those choosing the new way.” Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity In the New Millennium, Donald E. Miller
  • 13. But It Is Really Innovative Worship That Pays The Strongest Vitality Dividend  Think for a moment – What is the most magnificent & inspirational worship service you have ever experienced?  Would your worship attendance increase if every service was like this? Would the depth of your spiritual commitment deepen?  What kind of worship might do the same things for your kids/ grand children/ nieces or nephews?
  • 14. Continuing High Levels of Conflict 65.1% 64.2% 0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 2000 2010 % Congregations Conflict In One or More of Four Key Areas* in Past Five Years *Four Key Areas: Worship Finances Program Priorities Leadership
  • 15.  No Conflict  Some Minor Conflict  Some Serious Conflict Conflict Typically Thought Of As, And Can In Fact Be A Bad Thing Consequences of Conflict 69% 25% 39% 0% 25% 50% 75% Some M embers Lef t Leader Lef t * M oney W it hheld % of Congregations that Reported Any Conflict
  • 16. But The Most Significant Implication of Conflict for Congregations Today Is Conflicts Relationship To CHANGE  Vitality and Growth Typically Require Change  Change Typically Produces Conflict  Vitality and Growth Typically Require Managing Conflict 33.7% 50.1% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Little or None Some or A Lot 32.4% 32.5% 29.1% 55.8% 51.7% 37.6% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% None Minor Serious Little or None Some Or A Lot Percent Rapid Attendance Growth Worship Change In Past 5 Years 11.8% 21.8% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% Little or None Some or A Lot Worship Change In Past 5 Years Percent Serious Worship Conflict Percent Rapid Attendance Growth Worship Conflict Worship Change
  • 17. Resolving Church Conflicts: A Case Study Approach for Local Congregations by G. Douglass Lewis 26% 23% 16% 15% 10% 11% 0% 10% 20% 30% Family Feeling Purposefulness % Congregations: Serious Conflict over Worship Buffers Against Serious Conflict Low Moderate High Insights Into: Congregational Conflict Is your congregation going through a period of conflict that you aren't sure how to handle? Or are you interested in preparing to better handle future conflicts? This publication offers research, tips and resources to help clergy, seminarians, and congregational leaders deal constructively with this inevitable part of congregational life. Download it @ www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org Fortunately, There Are Resources For Dealing With Conflict Buffers Against Serious Conflict
  • 18. Considerably More Ethnic 22.6% 7.3% 30.8% 29.3% 11.4% 37.0% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% All Congregations Oldline Protestant Evangelical Protestant % Congregations 2000 2010 Predominantly Racial/Ethnic Minority Congregations: % Of All U.S. Congregations And, More Likely To Be Growing Ten percent Or More 5-Year Attendance Growth
  • 19. 7.5% 13.7% 0% 5% 10% 15% 1998 2010 Percent Multiracial Congregations The Number of Multiracial Congregations is also Increasing (Congregations with no more than 80% of participants from any given racial/ethnic group) 7.4% 14.4% 27.1% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Oldline Prot Evang Prot Cath & Ortho World Relig 36.9% 47.9% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Not MultiracialMultiracial 2010 Percent Multiracial Congregations By Family Percent Rapidly Growing 35.4%
  • 20. Further Resources on Congregations & Change Hartford Seminary Courses and Events, www.hartsem.edu Webinar: Supersized Believers: What Megachurches Tell Us About The Spiritual State of Americans And How to ReachThem Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 8 p.m. Course: American Religious Trends: Changing World, Changing Ministry Monday, June 3 through Friday, June 7, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m Hartford Institute Publications, www.FaithCommunitiesToday.org/ The Other 80 Percent: Turning Your Church's Spectators into Active Participants Scott Thumma, Warrant Bird FACTs on Growth 2010 C. Kirk Hadaway A Decade of Change in American Congregations: 2000 - 2010 David A. Roozen Most recent and encyclopedic book on religious change in the united States American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell David Roozen, Director Hartford Seminary Institute For Religion Research roozen@hartsem.edu