JT may be referring to a Barna Research Group study ....
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according to a recent nationwide survey by the Barna Group, a Christian market-research company, the divorce rate among born-again Christians is 35 percent—exactly the same as for the population as a whole. (Of course, the propensity of the non-born-again to cohabit rather than marry may artificially lower their divorce rates; but even if break-ups by couples who live together are counted as divorces, the born-again rate is only three percentage points lower than that of the general population.) The survey also uncovered some interesting denominational variation in the divorce rate: Catholics (whose hierarchy still holds a traditional line on divorce) were much less likely to divorce (25 percent) than Protestants (39 percent). Among the latter, Pentecostals were the most likely to divorce (44 percent) and Presbyterians were the least likely (28 percent).
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When one considers that there are over 200 million Pentecostals and over 200 million Charismatics ... which he may or may not have included under the Pentecostal banner ... this is an alarming number and is significantly more than outside this demographic ... even among the population as a whole
Oneness Pentecostals, if using French's number ... of about 12 million world wide would comprise 5-10% of this number of total Pentecostals/Charismatics worldwide....
I don't think the numbers would be as high .... but we'd have to admit anecdotally the numbers of Apostolics getting divorced seems to be increasing ... unfortunately.
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