Why Plant More Churches?

The State of South Carolina

Greenville County has 417,000 people living in it.

The Upstate of SC, which is 10 counties, has 1.2 Million people living in it.

The state of South Carolina has 4.5 million people living in it.

80% of the state of South Carolina is unchurched.

The State of the Unchurched

An estimated 73 million adults are presently unchurched. When teens and children are added, the total swells to roughly 100 million Americans.

To put that figure in context, if the unchurched population of the United States were a nation of its own, that group would be the eleventh most populated nation on earth (trailing only China, India, the churched portion of the United States, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan and Mexico).

Included among the unchurched is an estimated 13 to 15 million born again adults and children. (Barna)

The State of Churched Christians

The biweekly attendance at worship services is, by believers own admission, generally the only time they worship God. (Barna)

Eight out of every ten believers do not feel they have entered into the presence of God, or experienced a connection with Him, during the worship service. (Barna)

Churched Christians give away an average of about 3% of their income in a typical y ear. Barna)

9% of all born-again adults have a biblical worldview (Barna)

The typical churched believer will die without leading a single person to a lifesaving knowledge of and relationship with Jesus Christ. (Barna)

At any given time, a majority of believers do not have a specific person in mind for whom they are praying in the hope that the person will be saved. (Barna)

Most churched Christians believe that since they are not gifted in evangelism, such outreach is not a significant responsibility of theirs. (Barna)