Quiz Results
Changing the Face of Christianity Inc has released the results of a Christianity Quiz; an anonymous self-assessment scoring how well Christians live the teachings of Jesus Christ. E.g. The quiz answers the question: “How Christian Are You?”
Answer 10 multiple-choice questions and the quiz returns a score, indicating how well the person lives up to the Christian ideal as modeled by Jesus Christ. The results indicate if you are “Far from Christ”, a “Worldly Christian”, a “Good Christian”, or a “Spiritually Mature Christian”.
Over an 8 month period, from September 2011 through April 2012, Changing the Face of Christianity collected over 1,500 responses to their Christianity Quiz.
Here is a summary of the results:
- Far from Christ – 2.9%
- Worldly Christian – 30.9%
- Good Christian – 38.5%
- Spiritually Mature Christian – 27.8%
What does it all mean?
The results are disturbing, as 1 in 3 self-proclaimed Christians admit they rarely live the teachings of Jesus
The quiz results show 27.8% of Christians are spiritually mature; a decrease of 5% since the prior year. R. Brad White says, “A little over 1/4 of Christians consistently living their faith. These are spiritually mature Christians, having experienced Christian transformation, that represent Jesus Christ well through their words and actions. These Christians engage with the world in a positive and loving way and truly bring Glory to God.
“The quiz results show 38.5% of Christians are “Good” Christians; a decrease of 0.5% since the prior year. R. Brad White says, “A significant majority of Christians consistently live their faith. In addition to the 27.8% of spiritually mature Christians out there, 38.5% of Christians take their faith seriously and are striving daily to live as good Christians. Yes, we are still human. We stumble. We fail. We make mistakes. We screw up. These Christians aren’t perfect, but are striving to consistently practice their faith. These Christians are at the tipping point and very close to becoming spiritually mature. This is incredibly promising to us. But there is also a risk that many of them will go the other way. Our organization seeks to help move these folks into spiritual maturity through our Bible study on negative Christian stereotypes and other programs.
The quiz results show 30.9% of Christians are worldly; an increase of 7.2% since the prior year. R. Brad White says, “This means they are mostly Christian in name only. When posed with a real world situation which tests their faith, they tend to do what the rest of the world does, instead of living as Jesus instructs. To be clear, these aren’t “bad” people. The score results suggest they think much more about themselves, than they think about God and other people. Reading the Bible and praying aren’t a common practice. These are people that you would probably be surprised to find are Christian, if it weren’t for the cross around their neck. These people are in the sweet spot of where we need to do our work. We are here to walk along side them, love them, educate them, mentor them, and guide them into living their faith through their words and actions. Christians in this category are increasing. There seems to be a downward shift among spiritually mature Christians, as well as a decrease in the number of Christians who are far from Christ. So the increase in worldly Christians is both good and bad.
In their hearts, they are not in a relationship with God; the creator of the universe; Jesus Christ. Our challenge is finding these folks, connecting with them, and helping them get into the game.
About Changing the Face of Christianity
The Christianity Quiz is available at: http://www.ChristianityQuiz.com. “We pray that God uses our Christianity Quiz as a catalyst and motivator of positive change and growth within our Christian faith.”, says R. Brad White. To help fund our programs and ongoing research, we accept and appreciate Online Donations at https://www.changingthefaceofchristianity.com/donate.
Changing the Face of Christianity Inc is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit Texas corporation, started in 2010 by Founder and President R. Brad White. Their mission is to reverse Christian intolerance, hypocrisy, homophobia, judgmentalism, and other negative Christian stereotypes, by helping Christians to be more like Jesus Christ.
Changing the Face of Christianity Inc is working to change these negative perceptions by
1) Making Christians aware of the negative stereotypes inadvertently created through their words and actions,
2) Educating Christians on the issues and effective ways to change their words and actions to create a positive stereotype in the world, and
3) Assisting Christians with their spiritual growth, maturity, and transformation into Christ-likeness.
About R. Brad White, President and Founder of Changing the Face of Christianity Inc.
For over half of his life, Brad was an unshakable Atheist. But after a miraculous sign from God in 2005, he shed his blind disbelief and became a believer. Brad felt called to start “Changing the Face of Christianity” in 2010′. Brad is available for interviews, radio segments, opinion pieces, guest blog articles, and commentary on our Christian faith and culture.
About R. Brad White
How do we calculate the scores manually, can we have the answers so that we can use the quiz during cell meetings. thanks
The trouble with the poll is it is still a bit vague. To make some of the claims within the quiz that give you the pretense of spiritual maturity are a bit stilted towards perfection in self than in Grace from God. I think I would retool the quiz a bit with a few more options for Christians who realize their humanity far more than those who claim to be spiritually mature. Blessings, K.D.
I agree, The answers to some of the questions seem very arbitrary. One or two seemed to have two very valid answers, and how do you figure out which answer is best?
K.D. and R. A. First, thanks for the feedback. There is no such thing as a perfect quiz and even with tweaks, there would be others who would say those tweaks are crap. (at least this is one thing I’ve learned). And R.A. with a quiz like this, it’s not for you or anyone else to try to figure out which answer is best. The goal is to answer honestly. Each question and the resulting answers were carefully, and prayerfully, and biblically researched. Just answer truthfully and let the results be what they are: not a definitive you are this or that…but a guide to show you possibly areas that need to be worked on. And K.D. I don’t see any suggestion in the questions and answers leading to a spiritually mature result…as some sort of “I’m perfect and NOT humble” type of attitude. Quite the opposite really. Anyone scoring spiritually mature is most likely (due to their time in the word, prayer time, quiet time, and selfless humility and service)…most likely painfully aware of their own imperfection, more so than folks who are far from Christ or wordly.
I would like to see how each question was graded. I have a feeling that the ‘mature’ answer to question #9, the ‘homosexual friend’ question, may not reflect the true Christian position as not enough information is given to make a fair evaluation. “A good friend confides in you that they are a homosexual. Your response would be: 1 Remain friends, share God’s perspective on homosexuality, and continue to love them 2 Remain friends because there is nothing wrong with homosexuality 3 Remain friends even though you silently believe homosexuality is a sin 4 Tell them you can’t be friends with a homosexual sinner” Response #1 would be appropriate if our friend was not a Christian, as we are not to judge the world. But if our friend was a brother/sister in Christ, response #4 is commanded by Paul: “But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.” 1 Cor 5:11-13.