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Originally Posted by Taq Man
scholarly approach. Convert baptisms have slowed way down. The church grows more from the births of existing members than through convert baptisms. The LDS church isn't the fastest growing church and it hasn't been for awhile. Speculate all you want on the reason for this, personally I think this is a function of an increasingly skeptical world with access to more information than previous generations. It's easy to listen to what the missionaries say and then google and get the other side. 20 years ago that didn't happen.
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None of this is true. Convert baptisms still outnumber birth baptisms 3:1. Convert baptisms have been down about 30K per year mostly due to the lack young men mission age. And depending how you break up churches, the Church is still #1 in US growth, ahead of Pentecostals and Catholics.
Demanding churches are growing the fastest because they have the most to offer.