Turned up this interesting finding from the Australian National Church Life Survey (NCLS).
Church plants are more likely to attract three groups: young people, males and overseas immigrants.
All three groups are under represented in established churches.
“Young” of course is anyone under 50. After that you’re “mature”.
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Steve! I have no statistics but from just looking around in swedish churches I would say the same things are true here. More men, youngsters and immigrants in churchplants in Sweden. Would be interesting to get some analysis on it, but I guess it would be the higher level of challenge and risk combined with an openness to all kinds of new people. Yesterday in the service in our churchplant in Lulea ( the north of Sweden), 30% of the congregation were immigrants from south america, 20% teenagers, and 50% were men.
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Richard, this is great news. Thanks for the update.