A Health Checkup of U.S. Churches
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A Health Checkup of
U.S. Churches
www.hartfordinstitute.org/church_checkup.html
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A Christian Nation of 350,000 Congregations
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80% say they are sure there is a God & belong to a faith group
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75% of Americans identify as “Christian”
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65% claim an affiliation with a congregation
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49% are claimed as adherents by all congregations
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40% tell surveys they attend weekly
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20% of Americans actually attend weekly
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A Christian Nation?
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Faith Groupings Congregations Adherents Percent of Population
Catholic 20,589 58,927,887 19.1%
Evangelical and
Conservative Protestant
191,112 50,013,107 16.2%
Mainline Protestant 77,760 22,568,258 7.3%
Other Faiths 11,661 6,667,542 2.2%
Latter-day Saints 14,393 6,267,771 2.0%
Black Protestant 17,754 4,877,067 1.6%
Orthodox Christian 2,551 1,056,535 0.3%
Total* 344,894 150,596,792 48.7%
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Denomination Churches Adherents % of Pop
Southern Baptist Conv. 50,816 19,896,279 6.4%
Non-denominational Churches 35,496 12,241,329 4.0%
Assemblies of God 12,258 2,944,887 1.0%
LCMS 6,040 2,270,921 0.7%
Churches of Christ 12,584 1,584,162 0.5%
Christian Ch’es and Ch’es of Christ
5,293 1,453,160 0.5%
Seventh-day Adventist 5,665 1,194,996 0.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, TN) 6,100 1,109,992 0.4%
All Other Evangelical and Conservative Protestants
56,860 7,317,381 2.4%
Total Evang. & Conserv. Prot. 191,112 50,013,107 16.2%
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Denomination Churches Adherents % of Pop
United Methodist Church 33,323 9,860,653 3.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
9,846 4,181,219 1.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 10,487 2,451,980 0.8%
Episcopal Church 6,794 1,951,907 0.6%
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
5,243 1,560,572 0.5%
United Church of Christ 5,225 1,284,296 0.4%
Other Mainline Protestant 6,842 1,277,631 0.4%
Total Mainline Protestant 77,760 22,568,258 7.3%
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Not Dying… But Changing
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Getting Older…
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Less Appealing To The Young?
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Getting Both Larger…And Smaller
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More Solitary… And More Selective About Their Friendships
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The Rise of Nondenominational and Functionally-Independent Churches…
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Independent Churches Are Distributed Evenly Across the Country
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Networks Taking The Place Of Denominations?
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Less Vital…?
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Churches Have To Be Wiser…And Less Wistfully Nostalgic
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www.faithcommunitiestoday.org
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