Steve Addison has two graphs up which are quite revealing. The first shows the growth of SBC membership over time, but note the slowing in growth from 1995 to 2005. This means Baptists are still growing but not as fast as before. Look at the second chart carefully: its not charting declines in membership but declines in annual growth rates. This means that Baptists are still growing, but not as fast as the overall population of the USA, and so while they are gaining members they are losing their “share” of the population. Ed Stetzer has more.
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