COOPERATIVE PROGRAM What Southern Baptists really think about the CP

By Bob Rodgers, Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) – Sometimes we will fill in our knowledge gaps with anecdotal information and hold it to be true.

Resulting opinions are thrown around like they were fact. Anecdotal evidence, when used as fact, may cause some people to draw incorrect conclusions and/or make bad decisions.

IT ADDS UPA lot of statistical data generally applies to Southern Baptists. For example, a Barna study released in the spring of 2008 revealed that only 5 percent of adults in America donated 10 percent or more to their churches and charitable groups.