Christianity Today's May 2024 report on the SBC's Annual Church Profile: membership peaked at 16.3 million in 2006 and fell to 12,982,090 in 2023, the lowest since 1976, the seventeenth consecutive year of decline for the denomination.
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PublisherChristianity Today
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/05/southern-baptist-church-decline-sbc-annual-church-profile/
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
A religion-desk news outlet reporting the Southern Baptist Convention's own Annual Church Profile, a self-reported statistical census gathered from its churches and compiled by Lifeway Research. Independent journalism reading a primary denominational data collection, not the collection itself. Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
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- Denominations, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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