[reaganaut]

WRONG!!!! NOT just like any other church. MOST Christian churches (all the ones I can think of) take you name off the membership rolls if you do not attend for a certain period of time. You are NOT considered a member until you are a 110 years old like with the LDS.

Secondly, many churches don’t even have membership so there is no ‘active’ vs. ‘inactive’.

Finally, the LDS will often attempt to track down inactive members so they can move the records to the ‘new ward’. Other churches do no such thing.

Just more evidence of the control the LDS, inc exercises.

And I wasn’t talking weekly attendance necessarily, I am talking about people who no longer believe in Mormonism, people who now belong to other, Christian, churches, people who have renounced Mormonism completely, yet LDS, inc. STILL counts them as members.

LDS membership is nothing but a shell game to make the TBMs feel secure.

[JDW11235]

How is it that you decided to change faiths? What do you think was the turning point for you?

[svcw]

Yep. I don't need a stinking index card in a secretaries office to know that I am a member of the Body of Christ, not a denomination or a building. I also know that if someone chooses to attend services else where, they are still welcome because they are part of the Body of Christ, as I would be to them.

[Elsie]

WRONG!!!! NOT just like any other church. MOST Christian churches (all the ones I can think of) take you name off the membership rolls if you do not attend for a certain period of time.

In MY church (Wesleyan denomination) we periodically go thru our 'membership' list and note members who have not attended for a long time and mail them to see if they still wish to remain a member. Some cannot be found, which will put them on a track to be removed, some say "Yes, remove me because I'm now attending somewhere else", others state that they DO want to remain on the roll, even though they do not attend regularlly