Stasis
NBC reports on the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention: Southern Baptists in ‘doldrums,’ leader says ahead of meeting
…He noted that the annual number of baptisms in the convention had been largely unchanged for decades – a worrisome sign because baptism, he said, was “the first giant step in discipleship, a relationship with the Lord and Christ.”
If you aren’t growing you are dying. Based on all of the reports of the “growing influence” of fundamentalists you have to wonder about the accuracy of the reporting and polls. The SBC are the largest Protestant denomination and by their own records they haven’t grown in decades.
