Where Did the Southern Baptist Convention Lose Ground in the Last Decade?
Ryan Burge does a deep dive into the 2020 Religion Census
Well this isn't what was expected:
"I think the clear point is this: if the SBC plants a church in a county it doesn’t look those churches are actually attracting and retaining lots of new converts to the convention. They may be cannibalizing other SBC churches, actually."
The statistics are pretty ugly in most areas as to our church planting emphasis. But there's a lot more here, with tons of data on various aspects of our decline.
Take a few minutes to read Ryan Burge’s analysis. Things are horribly off-track in Alpharetta.
