Evangelicals to be Dominant Force in UK Church Development, Research Finds
Evangelicals will be a key body in the future development of the Church in the UK a new report has found.
Posted: Wednesday, September 21 , 2005, 12:01 (UK)

Evangelicals will be a key body in the future development of the Church in the UK a new report has found. Christian Research, a member organisation of the Evangelical Alliance UK, has revealed the findings in its latest issue of their journal Religious Trends 5.

The research indicated that by 2020 evangelicals will be the dominant force in all denominations. The research was titled, ‘Churchmanship’, and the editor of Religious Trends, Peter Brierley stated that by 2020, “Evangelicals dominate”. This deduction is based on figures over recent years revealing that larger evangelical Church of England churches have increasingly been taking the lead.

The journal stated that the majority of the Church of England’s large churches, with more than a 350-strong congregation, are evangelical.

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