A recent Barna survey shows that people outside the church have a low opinion of evangelicals.

The Barna survey asked respondents how they felt about evangelicals, born-again Christians, ministers, and other types of people. According to the survey, evangelicals came in tenth out of eleven, trailing lesbians and lawyers but beating out prostitutes.

Trailing lawyers?

“We may not be ‘evil’ people, we may not be ‘bad’ people — we may be completely loving and wonderful. But somehow we are being perceived by non-Christians in America as a group of people who are not particularly loving [and] not particularly generous, kind, or understanding,” Barna says.

The results and stats from the survey are here.
Believers have a lot of work ahead of us.