THE TIDE IS RUNNING OUT
By Dr. Peter Brierley
Christian Research. 256 pages. £8.99
ISBN 1 85321 137 0
'The Tide is Running Out' contains the results of the English Church Attendance Survey (ECAS), a two-page questionnaire sent to every church in England during September 1998, along with an analysis of these results.
Organised by MARC Europe the questionnaire was sent to 37,717 churches in all. It covered all Trinitarian denominations, Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox. A church is defined as 'a body of people meeting on a Sunday in the same premises primarily for public worship at regular intervals'. 12,446 churches, or 33% of those contacted, responded to the survey.
