Most New Zealanders avoid church but still believe

Most New Zealanders avoid church but still believe
Tags: Church Growth, Discipleship, Fellowship, Ministry
January 6, 2005

The New Zealand Herald: More than two-thirds of New Zealanders say they believe in God but less than half of them go to church or pray.

A Herald poll of 1000 New Zealanders carried out last month revealed 67.7 per cent of people said they were believers, but only 20.6 per cent said they often attended church.

Dr. Kevin Ward, Dean of Studies at Knox College in Dunedin, said the results were consistent with a trend emerging over the last few years.

"The old paradigm of understanding religion was counting the number of people who went to church," he said.

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