Only Half of Kids Raised Southern Baptist Stay Southern Baptist

Only Half of Kids Raised Southern Baptist Stay Southern Baptist Analysis: The bigger factor behind the SBC’s decline isn’t the struggle to gain new converts; it’s keeping their own. Ryan P. Burge

By now, Southern Baptists recognize that their movement is in a decline that shows no signs of changing course. By their own measures, they’re not adding as many new believers to their flocks each year—the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) went from baptizing 321,000 in 2007 to 246,000 last year. Plus, despite adding more than 10,000 more cooperating churches over the past couple of decades, church attendance across the denomination is also dropping. In 2006, the SBC had 16.3 million members, ...

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