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Oct 11, 2026
Mark PettusHOST
If you're new to faith, martyr just means someone who's given their life for the cause of Christ.
Mark PettusHOST
Can we h- as a church, can we honor those globally right now who would stand firm in their faith? [clapping] And in fact, this is some research from that Barna Group.
Mark PettusHOST
By the time this service ends, 11 believers somewhere in the world will have been beaten for being a Christian.
Mark PettusHOST
Well, this is heavy, church.
Edmund MazzaGUEST
That's what they do.
Edmund MazzaGUEST
They're called the Barna Group.
Edmund MazzaGUEST
And let's see, what year was this? 2025? And when they got the results from their survey back, only 40% of respondents believe that God exists and affects people's lives.
Edmund MazzaGUEST
That figure rises to 53% among Christians.
Jared WilsonHOST
They're often addicted before they even say yes to the calling of ministry.
Jared WilsonHOST
And a recent Barna Group research study indicates that approximately one in five pastors admit to a current ongoing struggle with pornography.
Jared WilsonHOST
And likewise, over half of pastors, 57%, and nearly two-thirds of youth pastors, 64%, report having struggled with pornography at some point in their lives.
Jared WilsonHOST
So why do you feel the temptation and struggle for lust appears just as bad for those serving in vocational ministry as for those not serving in full-time ministry?
Don EvertsGUEST
Yes.
Don EvertsGUEST
So we work with the Barna Group.
Don EvertsGUEST
So I work with Lutheran Hour Ministries.
Don EvertsGUEST
And so it's just a hundred year old evangelism ministry with a weird name.
Don EvertsGUEST
And we partner with the Barna Group who are these like social science, total nerds, right? I mean, I love them.
Don EvertsGUEST
They're so smart.
Don EvertsGUEST
And we want to find out about this area.
Brian FromHOST
30 years ago, 33% of U.S. pastors were under 40, and the median age was 44.
Brian FromHOST
Barna Group put this together and they said, as a generation of clergy ages and prepares to step down, it is not clear that churches are prepared for the transition.
Brian FromHOST
If this trend goes unaddressed, the church in the U.S. will face real succession crises, real succession crises.
Brian FromHOST
The graying of the pastor does mean for some of you coming out of college that people always think there aren't many pastor jobs available.
Troy MillerGUEST
But for Christian communicators in general, it's the best time right now.
Troy MillerGUEST
We just finished a survey, uh, a year and a half ago with the Barna Group and found out that nearly 60% of Americans tune in to some form of Christian media on a regular basis.
Brian FromHOST
Mm.
Troy MillerGUEST
And get this, the two leading demographic groups were the X j- were, sorry, were the Gen Z-ers at 64% and the millennials at-
Dan McGawHOST
Yeah.
Dan McGawHOST
It's ruling our world, right? Uh, when the Barna Group did a survey, uh, of Christians across the UK and the US, they found that 64% of Christian men and 15% of Christian women had watched porn at least once in the last month.
Dan McGawHOST
They found that 68% of divorce cases were a result of one spouse meeting a new lover over the internet or from porn.
Dan McGawHOST
And they also found in, in, in another study where non-Christians were surveyed, 90% of youth and 96% of young adults were okay with pornography, and they encouraged it, accepted it, or were neutral about it.
Amber PikeHOST
Well, I need to make sure that my leaders know what they're teaching.
Amber PikeHOST
The Barna Group did a study, and they found that four to eight percent of American adults have a biblical worldview.
Amber PikeHOST
[inhales] Meaning, out of every hundred people, four to eight of them believe every word of the Bible.
Amber PikeHOST
Now, I'm not a math person.
Gerard TroloveGUEST
I think For men, it's 74%.
Gerard TroloveGUEST
So the Barna Group, they did a lot of research, and especially around Christian communities and that.
Gerard TroloveGUEST
So they were saying 74% of church-going men have some kind of relationship with pornography, whether they're using it regularly or semi-regularly.
Gerard TroloveGUEST
So when you look at any given congregation, And that's sexual integrity, as we've discussed, that expands far past just not looking at porn.
David FiorazoHOST
Wow.
Crystal Renaud DayGUEST
You can f- actually find this information from the Barna Group.
Crystal Renaud DayGUEST
They did a church survey, and they redid it two years ago.
Crystal Renaud DayGUEST
Um, and so, you can look at, you can look that up yourself.
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