Report: Southern Baptists Lost 200K Members in 2015
Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7:33AM The United States' largest Protestant denomination lost approximately 204,000 members in 2015, according to recently released statistics.
LifeWay Christian Resources released the Annual Church Profile statistics Tuesday, which tracked among other things the SBC's total membership, worship attendance, and number of congregations.
Total membership in the SBC in 2015 was approximately 15.294 million, which is a decrease from the approximately 15.499 million reported in 2014. This represents a 1.32 percent decrease.
SBC President Ronnie Floyd told The Christian Post that the concern of decline might not be as big an issue as the ACP report indicates.
"We have to keep in mind in this evaluation, that we have 8,661 of our churches not reporting their annual statistics for this report this year. Therefore, while this trend is not encouraging, it may not be as concerning as expressed," said Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church in Springdale, Arkansas.
Floyd also told CP that as president he has been working on efforts to counter the trends noted in the ACP statistics.
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