| 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
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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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Friday, May 31, 2019
Only Half of Kids Raised Southern Baptist Stay Southern Baptist
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