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We are dying a quick death. We have closed 25% of our churches in 7 years. We are not planting but maybe 1 for every 10 Closed. Most of our plants do not survive more than a couple years. 40%-50% of our church has declined to 40 or less. Our district has gone from a Sunday average of 1200 10 years ago to 400 now. Our church has only gone from 100

Not sure about the Church of God, but according to Thom Rainer at Lifeway between 4000 and 7000 Baptist churches close each year. Barna Research says that only 55% of Americans attend church. All of this would lead one to believe that the COG isn’t likely to be faring much better “Hell will be filled with people that didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, and may even have been baptized. Why? Because none of those things makes someone a Christian.”

I was at a church meeting and the presenter showed a PowerPoint indicating only 17-18% of Americans attend church. I thought 55% seemed high but really don'tt know whose statistics are correct.

I recently heard it's 17% on any regular Sunday (not Easter and such) and I think the 55% would be the number that goes to church at least once or twice during the year. That 17% is down from 27

The 55% number I referenced indicates what Barna refers to as “churched adults”, adults who have attended a service in the past six months. Obviously we are not talking about regular attendees here, but the occasional visitor who shows up at church. Here is the text from the article, as well as the link to the entire 2016 State of The Church article from Barna. www.barna.com/research/state-church-2016/“There Are More Churched Than Unchurched AmericansDigging deeper into church attendance, Barna uses another metric to distinguish between two main groups: those who are “churched” versus those who are “unchurched.” Churched adults are active churchgoers who have attended a church service—with varying frequency—within the past six months (not including a special event such as a wedding or a funeral). Unchurched adults, on the other hand, have not attended a service in the past six months. (They may be dechurched, meaning they once attended regularly, or purely unchurched, meaning they have never been involved in a Christian faith community.) Under these definitions, a slight majority of adults (55%) are churched—though the country is almost evenly split, with 45 percent qualifying as unchurched adults” “Hell will be filled with people that didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, and may even have been baptized. Why? Because none of those things makes someone a Christian.”