This week’s Barna Minute looks at who non-Christians understand Jesus Christ to be.

Barna’s seventh release in the Spiritually Open series takes a look at all non-Christians—even segmenting by those who are spiritually open or not spiritually open—to learn who this group understands Jesus Christ to be.

First, let’s define “spiritual openness.” To take a closer look at what spiritual openness looks like across the population and how its depth might vary, Barna created a four-point scale to place respondents into three categories: high openness, moderate openness, and low openness. This scale was based on a combination of factors including: