Barna Study: Pastors Don’t Have Biblical Worldview

September 2022

   Earlier this year, research from the American Worldview Inventory 2022, conducted by Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, revealed that just 37% of Christian pastorshave a biblical worldview.

   A new report, cross-referencing that research across major U.S. denominations, reveals not only a stunning erosion of biblical belief among pastors in all denominational groupings, but that the churches whose pastors were by far the most likely to embrace basic biblical principles were those serving non-denominational and independent Protestant churches.

   Of the seven denominational groupings (full list in chart) evaluated in the nationwide survey of pastors, just one features at least three out of every four pastors holding biblical views on a majority of the 17 basic beliefs evaluated.

   Among the other six denominational families studied — which cumulatively represent more than 90% of all Christian churches in America — none had at least three-quarters of their pastors holding biblical views on even half of the beliefs tested.  

   Among the most surprising outcomes was how few pastors of evangelical churches, in particular, hold biblical beliefs.

   Thirty-nine percent (39%) of evangelical pastors surveyed contend that there is no abs ...

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