Mainline churches lose 3.5M since 1990, while nondenominational-Evangelicals increase by 8M!
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Yep, the liberal churches are declining. The conservative ones are growing at a very rapid clip.
We recently had a baptism at our very conservative non-denom church (we hold one about every 3 months) with over 50 people baptized at the service.
I wasn't impressed with that statement until I got to the "50 people" part. Our (also non-denom) church couldn't handle 50 people baptized in any reasonable amount of time. We have been baptizing at least 2-3 per week, lately.
I'm guessing that crowd was done in a "muddy water" baptism? Up here in Michigan, open air baptisms are not extremely popular. For at least one month per year, you had better bring chain saws, and a lot of the rest of the year it is still a little cold to expect anyone to get wet outside.