What is it like being tempted these days? At Word Alive we promoted a small survey among EN readers on this. What were your responses?
First of all, it was quite difficult to get people to respond, even though the questionnaire was anonymous! Maybe that fact alone tells us something. We don't like to be reminded of our failures, even confidentially. Perhaps that reveals pride or a smidgen of legalism among us. However, 50 brave souls were prepared to fill out the survey, 28 men and 22 women. It was too small a sample to make our findings reliably representative of the general evangelical population, but nevertheless the results are of some interest.
Of these, 25 identified themselves as from an urban area, 17 from suburbia and 8 from a rural locality. There were 18 Anglicans (11 male, 7 female), 16 Baptists (8m, 8f), 12 Independents (7m, 5f) and 4 others (2m, 2f). The distribution by age and gender is shown below.
