Evangelicals are rightly concerned about keeping unsaved and unregenerate worldlings outside the membership of the local church. But ought they not to be equally concerned about the many redeemed who ...

Note: This article was updated March 3 to correct the year Southern Baptist membership peaked. The Southern Baptist Convention lost 1,253 congregations in 2022, the most recent year on record, its ...

But it’s making a comeback in some circles, including among Reformed congregations that emphasize church membership. When a church member left her husband and moved in with another man, pastor Aaron ...

U.S. church membership is still on the way up. According to the new Year book of American Churches, published by the National Council of Churches, a record 123,307,449 Americans claimed membership in ...