{"id":34503,"date":"2022-09-10T21:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/catholics-up-baptists-down-for-2010\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:31:16","slug":"catholics-up-baptists-down-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/catholics-up-baptists-down-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholics Up, Baptists Down for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

While overall membership may be increasing, only five of the top 25 churches in the nation are growing, according to the 2010 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches<\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to a Feb. 22, 2010, RNS report, the 10 largest Christian bodies remain unchanged from last year’s list with one exception. The Assemblies of God moved up a notch to the No. 9 spot, switching places with the Presbyterian Church (USA), which now finishes last on the Top 10 list. (The Yearbook<\/em> includes Mormons among the listing of Christian churches.)<\/p>\n

The 10 largest Christian bodies reported in the 2010 Yearbook<\/em> are:
1. The Catholic Church: 68.1 million, up 1.49 percent.
2. Southern Baptist Convention: 16.2 million, down 0.24 percent.
3. The United Methodist Church: 7.8 million (U.S.), down 0.98 percent.
4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 5.9 million (U.S.), up 1.71 percent.
5. The Church of God in Christ: 5.5 million, no change.
6. National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. Inc: 5 million, no change.
7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: 4.6 million, down 1.62 percent.
8. National Baptist Convention of America Inc.: 3.5 million, no change.
9. Assemblies of God: 2.9 million, up 1.27 percent.
10. Presbyterian Church (USA): 2.8 million, down 3.3 percent.<\/p>\n

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While overall membership may be increasing, only five of the top 25 churches in the nation are growing, according to the 2010 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. According to a Feb. 22, 2010, RNS report, the 10 largest Christian bodies remain unchanged from last year’s list with one exception. The Assemblies of God moved up … Continue reading “Catholics Up, Baptists Down for 2010”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}