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Church Planting Challenge. FEBToronto. Some Stats on Religion in Canada from the 2011 Census (& earlier). Canada has grown from 10M to 35M people in 80 years . “Christians” peaked at ~23M people in the 2001. Christians have declined from 98% to 67% of the population.
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Church Planting Challenge FEBToronto
Some Stats on Religion in Canada from the 2011 Census (& earlier)
Canada has grown from 10M to 35M people in 80 years. “Christians” peaked at ~23M people in the 2001.
Why did Canada’s Christian population decline from 98% to 67%?
Other Religions have grown, and millions have left Christianity for No Religious Affiliation.
The Adoption of ‘No Religion’ in Canada appears to be following a predictable mathematical diffusion pattern. Source: http://www.jmir.org/2006/2/e7/, see Rogers Diffusion of Innovations
Seniors are almost twice as likely as Younger People to be Baptists
The Adoption of ‘No Religion’ in Canada appears to be following a predictable mathematical diffusion pattern. Source: http://www.jmir.org/2006/2/e7/, see Rogers Diffusion of Innovations
We have lost at least two generations, and will continue losing them unless we do something different.
One Thing is Certain: We can’t keep doing the same thing we have been doing
PS: Both are Difficult! Two Options to turn this Around Church Renewal Church Planting
Selected Data Sources: http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a05?lang=eng&id=0750016&pattern=0750016&searchTypeByValue=1&p2=35 http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3520005&Data=Count&SearchText=Toronto&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&A1=All&B1=All&TABID=1 http://www12.statcan.ca/English/census01/products/standard/themes/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=431591&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=68339&PRID=0&PTYPE=55430,53293,55440,55496,71090&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2001&THEME=56&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0 http://www.demographia.com/db-canrelig.htm Helpful Census info from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada: http://files.efc-canada.net/min/rc/cft/V01I02/Evangelicals_Canadian_Census.pdf