Everything you need to know about Church statistics
Without falling asleep!
The link below is to a small brochure I created a few years ago. It addresses some of the issues and misconceptions around church statistics. It was written before I started my role at statistics officer for the ACC, but I have been a church stats nurd for a long time before that.
Why “How grows the vineyard”? I am an amateur wine maker and an enthusiastic consumer of wine (should I be saying that?). I have limited insight into the production of wine…. but even I know that it is a science as well as an art. In order to make good wine the numbers have to be right. And if the comparison between the church and a vineyard was good enough for Jesus……
I obviously can’t promise that it won’t send you to sleep….. but I have tried very hard not to let my enthusiasm turn into endless pages of minutia. I hope you enjoy it.
The pdf of this document can be found here
