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Perhaps with the Church's explosive growth

Greg F in #41 states LDS hasn't grown in maybe two decades. DLongo claims "explosive growth". My understand is 12 million with ~ 6 million inactive or no longer consider themself LDS.

Anybody care to enlighten me?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second-fastest growing church in the United States, according to the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, published by the National Council of Churches. The Church reached 12,560,869 members worldwide at the end of 2005, with 5,690,672 in the United States.

First is Assemblies of God congregations.

As for worldwide...

A group of researchers headed by the Hartford (Conn.) Institute for Religion Research has been busy over the past five years conducting the most sweeping survey of U.S. congregational life ever completed. The study found that more than half of congregations are growing, those in the West more rapidly even than those in the South. The study also found that world religions (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Islam and Baha'i) are the fastest growing of all faiths.