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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
JT may be referring to a Barna Research Group study ....
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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Interesting stats...
But since the categorization of what's considered
"Pentecostal" is so broad, I'll still take such numbers with a few cups of salt.
When I think of "the church" I define that as
Jesus-name-baptized/Spirit-filled saints. Apparently there are no stats for such Apostolics/Oneness Pentecostals. The number of divorces among Apostolics may be increasing, as I'm told it is... but if I were a betting man I would bet my last penny that the divorce number among "us" is
nowhere near the numbers Barna comes up with for divorces among "Pentecostals".
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