{"id":963,"date":"2013-05-19T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=963"},"modified":"2020-03-26T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T00:31:48","slug":"what-do-pastors-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DO PASTORS READ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><strong>From John Fea&#8217;s terrific blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home (http:\/\/www.philipvickersfithian.com)<\/strong><\/address>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-U0-hGF3ERHw\/UZb2k8bNdpI\/AAAAAAAAR3Q\/GjwCPiheAYM\/s1600\/christian_bookstore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-U0-hGF3ERHw\/UZb2k8bNdpI\/AAAAAAAAR3Q\/GjwCPiheAYM\/s400\/christian_bookstore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is the synopsis of a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/congregations-articles\/623-the-reading-habits-of-todays-pastors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barna Group survey<\/a> of Protestant pastors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>There are approximately 315,000 Protestant churches in America.\u00a0 (As compared to 13,000 McDonalds and 4000 Walmarts).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pastors buy 3.8 books per month per person<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>92% of pastors buy at least one book per month<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pastors buy 8-13 million books per year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pastors buy more books than the general population.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Younger pastors buy more books than older pastors.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pastors buy books on topics that interest them or that are recommended to them.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Half of pastors are reading biographies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One-third of pastors are reading business books.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Pastors buy most of their books at Christian bookstores and online.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Half of pastors read books on an e-reader of an iPad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>90% of pastors recommend books to their congregations from the pulpit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From John Fea&#8217;s terrific blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home (http:\/\/www.philipvickersfithian.com) &nbsp; &nbsp; Here is the synopsis of a recent Barna Group survey of Protestant pastors: There are approximately 315,000 Protestant churches in America.\u00a0 (As compared to 13,000 McDonalds and 4000 Walmarts). Pastors buy 3.8 books per month per person 92% of pastors buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastor","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}