Thanks for this excellent analysis! You mention that congregational decline is usually a leading indicator of membership decline which I thought was interesting. Why is that the case? I would have thought the opposite to be true (i.e. membership decline first, and then congregational decline follows).
I probably sound like a broken record in my comments, but across the US the only religious groups that are growing in durable ways are those that make technology decisions (e.g. what phones/apps/websites are appropriate for members to use) as communities, rather than as individuals.
So far I've seen zero exceptions to this rule. When I say "durable" I mean growth that's not based on cannibalizing other groups.
I think I saw data in Twitter that said this is all due to child of record numbers dumping because of child birth rates? Is that true? Conversion baptisms are really rising, but birth rates are dumping.
I think I saw data in Twitter that said this is all due to child of record numbers dumping because of child birth rates? Is that true? Conversion baptisms are really rising, but birth rates are dumping.
Thanks for this excellent analysis! You mention that congregational decline is usually a leading indicator of membership decline which I thought was interesting. Why is that the case? I would have thought the opposite to be true (i.e. membership decline first, and then congregational decline follows).
I probably sound like a broken record in my comments, but across the US the only religious groups that are growing in durable ways are those that make technology decisions (e.g. what phones/apps/websites are appropriate for members to use) as communities, rather than as individuals.
So far I've seen zero exceptions to this rule. When I say "durable" I mean growth that's not based on cannibalizing other groups.
I think I saw data in Twitter that said this is all due to child of record numbers dumping because of child birth rates? Is that true? Conversion baptisms are really rising, but birth rates are dumping.
I think I saw data in Twitter that said this is all due to child of record numbers dumping because of child birth rates? Is that true? Conversion baptisms are really rising, but birth rates are dumping.