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Lifeway Research, a division of the SBC’s publishing arm, said in its annual church profile on Tuesday there were 46,906 Southern Baptist churches and 12.9 million members in 2023, down from 13. ...
The Southern Baptist Convention has experienced decline: between 2006 and 2020, it lost 2.3 million members, representing a 14% decrease in membership during that period. [104] [105] The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod reported in 2021 that the denomination has been declining in membership. [106]
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches – 0.3 million [72] Ghana Baptist Convention – 0.3 million [72] Union of Baptist Churches in Rwanda – 0.3 million [72] Venture Church Network – 0.2 million [76] National Association of Free Will Baptists – 0.2 million [77] Convention of Visayas and Mindanao of Southern Baptist Churches – 0.2 ...
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
The SBC has been in membership decline for nearly two decades but remains the largest Protestant denomination in America. In statistics released earlier this year by Lifeway Research, the ...
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted churches for having a woman pastor and over abuse-related reports, solidifying a trend in the recent reasons churches involuntary exit from the ...
In 2015, KBC churches reported an increase in church membership and number of baptisms, reversing a decade-long trend of decline. [16] In 2016, the KBC announced that member churches had contributed $22.3 million to the Southern Baptist Convention through the Cooperative Program, more than any other year in the organization's history. [17]
The Southern Baptist Convention's top administrative body voted Tuesday to oust four congregations — one for having a woman as senior minister, two for what it said were failures related to the ...