Barna Research in US: Year End Perspective

Barna Research Group reports the following four major themes in his research:
1: Increasingly, Americans are more interested in faith and spirituality than in Christianity.
2: Faith in the American context is now individual and customized. Americans are comfortable with an altered spiritual experience as long as they can participate in the shaping of that faith experience.
3: Biblical literacy is neither a current reality nor a goal in the U.S.
4: Effective and periodic measurement of spirituality – conducted personally or through a church – is not common at this time and it is not likely to become common in the near future.