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To: Old_Mil
Fads run their course.

      Fad???  At the current rate of growth, Pentecostals/Charismatics will be the largest Christian category worldwide by the middle of century.

      The article (and many others) refer to charismatics as though the term applies to those who stay within other churches.  This is only partially correct.  Many charismatic churches (including some of the largest congregations is the US/world) prefer to call themselves non-denominational, rather than pentecostal.

      Obviously, the "dropout rate" is lower than the "dropin rate".

36 posted on 10/07/2006 6:52:42 PM PDT by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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Fad??? At the current rate of growth, Pentecostals/Charismatics will be the largest Christian category worldwide by the middle of century.
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Already true in Brazil, much of So America and much of Asia and Africa.


63 posted on 10/07/2006 8:12:59 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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