Non-Christians are to be paid £30 a time to go to church under a new research programme to find out why more people do not practise the Christian faith.
The new “mystery worshipper” scheme will be modelled on the “mystery shopper” schemes used by researchers to guage the service offered by hotels, shops and other branches of the service industry.
The project could even result in a church “league table” where churches are ranked according to the percentage they score out of a possible total of 98 points....