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Estudio: Más congregaciones están reabriendo pero la asistencia se mantiene estable

Por Yonat Shimron
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For the first time in the history of the General Social Survey, more than 1 in 3 Americans say they never attend church. (Photo by Nolan Kent/Unsplash/Creative Commons)

En todo el país, las congregaciones religiosas han reabierto, o han reabierto con algunas restricciones de salud aún vigentes, después de dos largos años de pandemia, según un nuevo estudio de Pew Research. encuesta. Pero ha habido poco o ningún aumento en la cantidad de personas que asisten a los servicios religiosos en persona durante los últimos seis meses, mientras que la cantidad de personas que miran los servicios en línea también se ha mantenido estable.

La encuesta de 10,441 adultos estadounidenses realizada del 7 al 13 de marzo mostró que solo 27% de los encuestados dijeron que asistieron a los servicios en persona este mes (en comparación con 67% que normalmente lo hacen). En septiembre, cuando el coronavirus todavía estaba aumentando y los hospitales estaban alcanzando su capacidad máxima, el porcentaje de personas que asistían a servicios religiosos en persona era 26%.

Asimismo, esos servicios de transmisión en línea se mantuvieron estables: 28% en septiembre de 2021 y 30% hoy.

Los investigadores de Pew sugirieron que la meseta en la asistencia al servicio religioso en persona podría aumentar si la pandemia continúa retrocediendo, o disminuir si surge una nueva variante de coronavirus.

Es probable que los servicios de visualización en línea continúen siendo más altos, dijeron, que antes de que comenzara el brote de coronavirus a principios de 2020.

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Los académicos religiosos ahora están comenzando a realizar estudios de campo para determinar los impactos a largo plazo del coronavirus en la asistencia al servicio religioso.

Scott Thumma, un sociólogo que recientemente comenzó un estudio de cinco años estudio de cómo les ha ido a las congregaciones durante la pandemia, dijo que sus hallazgos iniciales muestran un aumento modesto en la asistencia en persona desde el verano pasado hasta noviembre. (El proyecto se basa en datos de congregaciones religiosas en lugar de asistentes individuales).

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“Dos tercios de los adultos estadounidenses que normalmente asisten a servicios religiosos mensualmente dicen que lo han hecho en persona en el último mes” (Gráfico cortesía del Pew Research Center)

“No vamos a saber el impacto total hasta dentro de algunos años”, dijo Thumma, quien dirige el Instituto Hartford para la Investigación de la Religión. “La gente todavía duda en volver. El clero todavía está luchando para convencer a la gente de que regrese. Mucha gente se contenta con no ir o depende de los servicios en línea”.

En la encuesta de Pew, 21% de los adultos que dijeron que asistían a servicios religiosos mensualmente dijeron que no habían vuelto a los servicios en persona y que solo asistían en línea.

Solo 5% de los encuestados dijeron que sus lugares de culto aún estaban cerrados. Los encuestados de todas las categorías informaron un aumento en la cantidad de congregaciones que realizan servicios como lo hacían antes de la pandemia.

Los feligreses protestantes negros se destacaron como el grupo cristiano con más probabilidades de haber visto servicios religiosos en línea o por televisión en el último mes. Este grupo con profundos compromisos religiosos era más probable que los evangélicos y los protestantes principales dijeran que vieron los servicios en línea en el último mes, de acuerdo con otros estudios que sugieren que los feligreses negros son mucho más cautelosos para protegerse del virus.

La encuesta no contenía suficientes encuestados de religiones no cristianas para informar sus hábitos de adoración por separado.

La encuesta también mostró que la proporción de republicanos e independientes de tendencia republicana que dijeron que sus iglesias estaban abiertas como antes de la pandemia fue aproximadamente el doble de la proporción de feligreses demócratas que dijeron lo mismo (58% frente a 27%).

Yonat ShimronYonat Shimron es reportero nacional y editor senior de Religion News Service.

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  1. Even regular weekly attendance in the pulpit and pew version of “meeting together” is “closed” and “flat”. God’s instructions for “meeting together” are the OPPOSITE of pulpit and pew and are open and mutually participative.

    Hebreos 10:24-25 (NVI)
    24 Y NOSOTROS (cada uno de nosotros)
    CONSIDERE CÓMO (prepárese con anticipación)
    estimularse unos a otros (lo opuesto a un sermón)
    al AMOR Y LAS BUENAS OBRAS, (acción, no solo conocimiento mental)
    25 no dejando de REUNIRSE,
    como es costumbre de algunos,
    sino animándonos UNO A OTRO, (nuevamente, no hay lectura bíblica)
    y TODO LO MAS
    cuando veis que el Día se acerca.

    Sermons by men with Bible degrees have never resulted in the “love and good works” God wants to live the gospel to the world and build up love between saints. Even “Love one another” is not permitted in the “worship service”. It’s all driven from a platform. The “new and living way” enables God’s people to do this Hebrews 10:19-25, but clergy don’t want ANYTHING to distract from their sermon. Clergyism was not fixed at the Reformation. We can fix it now and practice REAL church life. We can “one another” about this here, but not during “worship”.

      1. I think there is room for teaching from the scriptures, but as an adjunct to the general gathering.
        The general gathering might be for reading the Bible together, prayer, singing hymns, conversation that comes out of this, perhaps over a meal or coffee and cake. A few people might give short talks on some events or thoughts, then they are discussed.
        One church I know does this around tables like a small seminar, or banquet. Then breaks for study in small groups afterwards.
        Perfect for the small (normal) congregation; but for the ‘mega’ church? Well, I doubt if that is church at all. But the idea of large conferences a couple of times a year and big celebrations (Easter, Pentecost, Christmas) is worth doing, IMO.

        1. There is LOTS of room for teaching from the scriptures, and it is to come from EVERY believer. The household of faith has HUGE confidence in words ONLY teaching, from alleged experts. They want ZERO responsibility to dig themselves and receive DIRECT from Jesus and their Bible. They also want no teaching by example, which is half the power of Jesus’ and Paul’s teaching. No words ONLY teacher will tell you that because they don’t do it. Crafting words together is easy but shallow for retention and reproduction. Luke 6:40, 2 Tim. 2:1-2.

          Anytime there is a diet of words only from experts, it will trump the body of Christ’s assignment to ALL grow up to be teachers. Hebrews5:11-14. The expert talkers have NO IDEA what they do to dumb down the body of Christ. God does not funnel his truth through a few experts. He dispenses it through all with a variety of spiritual gifts. If you don’t know any lay people who can teach, it’s because they are all enamored with being a spectator to experts talking about the Bible. That’s just the milk and not solid food, no matter how technical it may be.

          “The word of Christ dwells richly” and “with all wisdom” as believers “teach and admonish one another”, along with singing in “one another” orientation. Col. 3:16.

      2. It looks the same as it was instructed and practiced by the apostles – 50+ “one another” instructions. Every believer comes prepared to participate with a song, a teaching, a testimony, etc. Since we walk by faith, not by sight, we don’t have to know what it looks like. We just obey the instructions. The pulpit and pew version could not be more CONVOLUTED from the NT instructions. Satan wants this protected because it marginalizes the effectiveness of the work of God that He has created into each new creation in Christ. Here are 6 paradigm shifts from the current version.
        1. 100% of the giving goes beyond the givers – no pooling to buy sermons and pulpit buildings primarily for the givers 2 Cor. 8 & 9 – All offerings and giving in the NT went beyond the givers. Meeting in homes is free. Leadership is “free of charge”. 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Corinthians 11:7
        2. 100% one another communication – there are 50+ of these and no instructions for one way communication by one man for the whole time Heb.10:24,25
        3. 100% relaciones mutuas - sin pirámide de poder con títulos - "todos ustedes son hermanos" Mateo 23:8
        4. 100% reproducción del liderazgo: todo lo que hace un líder está “encomendado” a “hombres fieles” 2 Tim. 2:1,2; Lucas 6:40
        5. Reunión intergeneracional 100%: nunca despida a los niños; pueden participar plenamente en todos los sentidos con el Espíritu Santo dentro de ellos. Mate. 19:13
        6. 100% demostración de ser “perfectamente uno” como oró Jesús para que el mundo supiera que Jesús es “perfectamente uno” con el Padre. Juan 17:20-23 No más división de marcas. No más clero - división laica.

      3. Probably several reasons church attendance hasn’t risen is because health concerns has been tossed to the winds and poor ventilation system of churches.

        And former church goers have had a chance to rethink how things are run in the churches they think of attending?

        “For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he [Diotrephes] does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.” (3 John 10, NASB)

        While home churches and indeed on occasion mega-churches may fulfill a need, neither are the typical examples of a church in the New Testament. What ls never an acceptable example of a Christian leader–Diotrephes may have been the very first CEO leader and nothing good was said of him! The following articles point out the problems of CEO type leadership

        https://baptistnews.com/article/ceo-style-pastorates-all-the-rage-but-offer-little-to-those-seeking-deeper-faith/#.YkNK2vdOnso

        and an excellent one:

        https://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/2017/march/quit-telling-pastors-stop-pastoring-successful-church.html?paging=off

  2. Yeah, it’s way too early for many people to have any desire to start gathering indoors, shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of fellow congregants, especially given that one third of churchgoers in the USA are over 65, and especially vulnerable to Covid-19.

    The most recent wave has only been over for a couple of weeks (in terms of new infections anyway), and we were still seeing up to a million reported infections a day a couple of months ago. Even if this was the last major wave of the pandemic, which doesn’t seem likely, then it’s going to take weeks or even months of low infection rates for the more vulnerable to feel comfortable being in large gatherings again.

    It will be interesting to follow the progress of the five year study into church attendance. At the start of the pandemic I predicted that a lengthy hiatus in church attendance would accelerating the already declining numbers of young people attending church as they got out of the habit of going to church, but I guess it’s still too early to tell at this point.

  3. Well said Tim. No one who reads the New Testament absent outside influence would come up with the historical form of how Church is practiced in America. In other countries with repressive governments, the Church is nothing but house churches and money is spent helping people and sharing rather than building institutions. It’s long overdue for America to follow suit.

  4. Maybe we’re weary of “doing” church and are longing for more meaning than being in a religious club that meets several times a week. Gatherings are mostly self-centered and self-serving with occasional bouts of missionary zeal and helping the others. Sure the words are there but in your heart you know the way that we do church is sadly lacking. I haven’t been in church in over two years but I’m more devoted to God than I ever was before. When I’m with fellow believers who worship in spirit and in truth as a matter of existence rather than a casual encounter, we’re built up in ways that don’t always occur in our loosey, goosey church services. They build up the people rather than offer worship to a Holy God. The way we’ve done church has become idolatry and you can see its effects everywhere up to and including people not wanting to participate anymore.

  5. I think Covid has simply accelerated a trend – and it’s a sobering one for Christians. The future of the church can be projected by watching the attendance numbers for the under 29 crowd year over year. Anyone looking at the numbers over the last few decades can see those numbers continue to decline/ My guess is that it won’t be all that long before the church loses an entire generation – or enough of it that the church will never recover. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Christianity is little more than a niche belief system within three generations.

    What Covid has done is provide an excuse for those of the over 29 crowd who were primarily culture Christians to also cut the ties. It’ll be interesting to see how that affects the next PEW numbers.

    Christianity will hold out in the South longer but even there I suspect the numbers will enentually prove fatal to the faith.

    1. Jacobo,

      Your predictions indeed may come to pass, especially if there is not a Protestant reformation of sorts regarding the errors and excesses that Julie and others here report on regularly.

      But I think two comments are in order:

      1. “The church is an anvil that has worn out many a hammer” – Beza

      2. Back in my youth (late 60s/early 70s) the mainstream media was positing that “God is dead” and churches were unable to connect with youth. Yet by the mid-1970s and 1980s the church in America was experiencing a revival of sorts and attendance and finances were great. Sometimes the darkest hour is indeed just before the dawn.

      1. Brian – Anything could happen. The church could certainly experience a revival of sorts. I think any such thing would be comparatively short-lived.

        Regarding Beza – it’s a nice quote but one has to remember the historical context. The church was only then emerging from a period of more than a thousand years when all they had to do to “wear out a hammer” was to send an army somewhere, or to execute anyone even remotely heretical. The church doesn’t have that kind of power anymore.

        I think what will ultimately do in Christianity, though, is the ease of accessing information. It may take a while but I think science and scholarship will eventually make holding to Christian belief untenable.

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