Source: Mission Network News, April 4, 2018<\/p>\n
The Barna Group recently conducted a survey<\/a> and found that 51 percent of churchgoers do not know the term \u201cthe Great Commission,\u201d which is found in Matthew 28:18-20<\/a>.<\/p>\n The survey found that 17 percent knew the term and could identify what it meant as well as the scriptural passage it went with. Twenty-five percent of the people surveyed said they had heard of \u201cthe Great Commission,\u201d but they didn\u2019t know what it was, and finally, six percent said they couldn\u2019t remember if they\u2019d heard the term before.<\/p>\n Barna further shared five passages from the Bible with churchgoers and asked if they could guess or identify which passage was known as the Great Commission.<\/p>\n Thirty-seven percent answered correctly. Thirty-three percent weren\u2019t sure if any of the passages referred to the Great Commission, and 31 percent answered incorrectly.<\/p>\n The study says this could mean the term is used less in churches or it could show a decrease in interest of working towards the Great Commission.<\/p>\n \u00bb Full story<\/a> attributes the findings to biblical illiteracy and offers suggestions and resources for families.<\/p>\n \u00bb Editor\u2019s note: It may be helpful to acknowledge that the term Great Commission is a man-made one. Many would say there are actually five Great Commission passages<\/a>, not one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, April 4, 2018 The Barna Group recently conducted a survey and found that 51 percent of churchgoers do not know the term \u201cthe Great Commission,\u201d which is found in Matthew 28:18-20. The survey found that 17 percent knew the term and could identify what it meant as well as the scriptural … Continue reading USA: Do You Know \u201cthe Great Commission\u201d?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7828,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}