COC Attend Most

From an article by Bobby Ross Jr. in The Christian Chronicle:

Americans who give their religious affiliation as "Church of Christ" are more likely than any other group to attend weekly worship services, a new Gallup Poll reports. Sixty-eight percent of Church of Christ members interviewed by Gallup said they attend worship services at least once a week or almost every week, according to a poll released April 14. The analysis is based on an aggregate of more than 11,000 Gallup Poll interviews between 2002 and 2005, including 123 identified with the Church of Christ. Pollsters did not ask respondents to specify whether the churches were a cappella or instrumental. Denominations on the list included:

• Mormons - 67 percent
• Pentecostal - 65 percent
• Southern Baptist - 60 percent
• Catholic - 45 percent
• Methodist - 44 percent
• Presbyterian - 44 percent
• Lutheran - 43 percent
• Episcopal - 32 percent

Growing up, we were always a 3-times-a-week family, a trend that continued once I was on my own. A few years back, we started "forsaking" on Wednesday night because the 7 PM start didn't work nicely with our kids' bed time. Hebrews 10:25 was always the proof text regarding attendance: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." As if there was no possible distinction between anything less than 100 % attendance and totally abandoning the practice of the assembly.