Many people hate filling in forms, but evidently many of you do not! We enclosed a questionnaire for readers of Evangelicals Now with the May issue and invited you to fill it in and send it back to us.
914 people responded, which is something like 14% of our readership. I am told by statisticians that is very good for a survey of this type. Thank you very much to everyone who spent time participating.
We were expecting about half that number of forms to come back to us. So we were rather overwhelmed by the size of the job required to process the resulting data. That is why it has taken such a long time to give a report back in our pages.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …