Survey This!

So I was looking at negative statistics on the web for something we're doing at the church. I have to say that statistics aren't helping my already frail optimism at all. Why do we even listen to statistics of a survey on the complete opposite side of the country when we don't even know the statistics in our own church? What makes us so oblivious to the fact that our area is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the Northeast, and the Pacific Coast? We may have better statistics, or we may have worse, WHO KNOWS? I don't want my faith to be based off this bull crap because people use this to manipulate countless people. That's worng ,and anyone who believes them is STUPID! So again I say sift and weigh every word you say or hear, because if you don't you'll become another depressing statistic. I don't want to be a number and if I am, I pray it's on the good side. :)