Some — mostly Baptist (58%) — tell congregants they should hand out gospel tracts to children who ring their doorbells on Halloween night. Pastors of churches in evangelical denominations (42%) were more likely to make this suggestion than those in mainline denominations (28%).
That number has had the biggest jump, from 26% to 34% of all Protestant pastors.
Lifeway is the publishing and research arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. It surveyed 1,000 Protestant pastors by phone between Sept. 6 and Sept. 29. Responses were weighted by region and church size, with 95% confidence that the sampling error does not exceed +3.2%.
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