tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294170801673753291.post4107119358978070672..comments2023-04-04T08:07:42.350-04:00Comments on SBC Plodder: A question you will not get rightWilliam Thorntonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12502242710436994507noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294170801673753291.post-64560452061408760922013-01-26T23:27:56.815-05:002013-01-26T23:27:56.815-05:00Moving from the Deep South to the Northeast, looki...Moving from the Deep South to the Northeast, looking for an SBC congregation posed a problem. One, there are not nearly as many of them, and two, most of the ones close to where we moved worshipped in a language other than English. <br /><br />The church we left behind in Texas had transitioned from being mostly white, older, and declining in the 70's and 80's, to three churches under Leehttp://deepintheheart.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294170801673753291.post-86536209353583531642013-01-24T14:05:42.134-05:002013-01-24T14:05:42.134-05:00Plodder: The data used in the NAMB/ACP is how a ch...Plodder: The data used in the NAMB/ACP is how a church self-identifies and reports.<br /><br />Anonymous: More likely how the person completing the report identifies, which is influenced by a question with a discrete choice.<br /><br />Interval level data that is collapsed to categorical levels loses information, thus interpretations based on such data need to be qualified.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294170801673753291.post-77891882495303693782013-01-24T11:15:23.201-05:002013-01-24T11:15:23.201-05:00As a child, the church we went to most often was a...As a child, the church we went to most often was a white church and the black church was a couple of streets over. After the Civil War both churches had seen it appropriate to split. The pastor of the white church tried several times to integrate the church by bringing in black members, but while we were there, there was always trouble. <br /><br />Fast forward to my married life, 1 in 5 Moses Modelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027355755303728808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294170801673753291.post-17124679181820781042013-01-24T11:14:00.383-05:002013-01-24T11:14:00.383-05:00The church I attend is Anglo but has two ethnic co...The church I attend is Anglo but has two ethnic congregations that use the building. The count there would be three chruches, since the ethnic congregations are themselves churches, one Anglo, two ethnic.<br /><br />The data used in the NAMB/ACP is how a church self-identifies and reports.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318761483549322086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294170801673753291.post-71132836978765912332013-01-24T09:52:58.658-05:002013-01-24T09:52:58.658-05:00I know of one church that has two large ethnicity ...I know of one church that has two large ethnicity groups: white and black. By a few percentage points, the larger group is black, thus it would be characterized as a black church by SBC (or non-anglo). I don't think people in the church think of it that way (i.e., as either white or black, anglo or non-anglo, etc.), but stats, important as they are and the role they play, are instructive, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com