How to estimate church attendence

How to estimate church attendence: "It's a complex thing to measure church attendance but here are a few pointers on arriving at an accurate number based on the attendance figures they give you.



- 50% if its a Pentecostal worship service because they count the legs and forget to divide by two.



- 30% if its a Baptist church because they count members on the roll and not all of them are still living.


+ 10 if its a Vineyard service because those rugs on the floor were actually people!

+ 20% if it's a fundamentalist church because they don't count the people they didn't want there.

- 30% if it's an Anglican/Presbyterian/Methodist church because the number they gave you is from their huge Easter service.



+ 15% if it's an ethnic/non-western service because all those people coming late missed the counting.



- 10% if its a megachurch because the worship team and welcome team got counted during all 5 services.



- 520% if its a Catholic church because they count the parish, not the church attendance.



+ 20% if it's an emergent service because those having a smoke outside were not counted.



- 25 % if its a Reformed church service because they count the people who SHOULD have been there.



- 15% if it's a house church because the neighborhood kids playing video games in the back room somehow managed to get counted with everyone else. So did the guy delivering pizza.

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