Largest Churches in the Southern Baptist Convention

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1. David says:

   January 26, 2013 at 7:25 am

   It would be intersting to know th CP giving of these compared to the 98.7% of us less than 1000.

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   • Thom Rainer says:

     January 26, 2013 at 7:52 am

     David -

     There are many possible ways we can analyze this data in the future.

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2. Adam says:

   January 26, 2013 at 7:27 am

   Is there a link somewhere to a more detailed list? For example, I would like to know where all these FBC’s are that have no geographic designation. For that matter, I would like to see the states for all churches to get a feel for distribution. Also, would like to see the numbers.

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   • Thom Rainer says:

     January 26, 2013 at 7:50 am

     Sorry Adam. I don’t have such a link.

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     • Mark Waggoner says:

       January 28, 2013 at 10:37 pm

       I’ve been in the Southern Baptist Convention for 58 years since I was in the Beginners Dept. in Sunday school. I’m weary about hearing about numbers! I remember hearing about “A Million More in ’54″ when I was a teenager, thinking that Southern Baptists were only concerned with “dipping them (members) and dropping them” with little or no discipleship. As an aging “Boomer, ” I now know this not to be true, but the perception persists, especially among we much smaller SBC congregations.

       The average-sized SBC church has about 300 members on roll. We active laymen know that that means that of those members, half attend regularly and only half of those who go frequently, give tithes and offerings, not to mention those who never give to “Annie Armstrong” or “Lottie Moon.”

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   • Bob Rogers says:

     February 19, 2013 at 9:57 am

     In reply to David’s question about CP giving, our church (FBC Rincon, GA at # 586), gives 13% to CP and another 2% to the Savannah Baptist Association.

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3. Steve Drake says:

   January 26, 2013 at 9:39 am

   Here’s a shout out to all churches regardless of size that are exercising obedience to God and have an outward focus to share the gospel. You may be smaller than some churches, but you are faithful and God will give you victories along the way.

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4. Ashley S says:

   January 26, 2013 at 10:15 am

   It would be interesting to see out of this list who is actually planting more churches instead of focusing on getting bigger.

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   • Bob Rogers says:

     February 19, 2013 at 9:59 am

     In answer to Ashley’s question, our church (FBC Rincon, GA *#586 above) planted the Baptist Church at Ebenezer in Rincon a few years ago, and we are currently sponsoring Rincon Hispanic Baptist Mission as a new church plant.

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5. Travis says:

   January 26, 2013 at 11:24 am

   It would be interesting and helpful to know how many campuses each church had. Service times would be a great help as well.

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   • Thom Rainer says:

     January 26, 2013 at 11:29 am

     Travis -

     That info is not in the data base. You would have to go to each church’s website to get it.

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6. Matt Brown says:

   January 26, 2013 at 12:24 pm

   Thom, love following all that you do, and amazing to see how God is moving through all these churches. Thanks for sharing!

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   • Thom Rainer says:

     January 26, 2013 at 1:09 pm

     Thanks so much Matt.

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7. William says:

   January 26, 2013 at 1:25 pm

   I find it interesting that if you look at churches over 2000; 3000; and 5000 they group this way
   (as best I could count, I might have missed some)

   East Coast (FL, GA, SC, NC, VA) – 64 (2000+); 30 (3000+); 15(5000+)
   Texas – 49; 22; 10
   Tenn&Kent – 21; 7; 2
   Deep South (AL, MS, LA. AR) – 19; 7; 2
   AR, MO, OK – 12; 1; 1
   California – 8; 5; 3
   All the rest – 11; 4; 2

   Its understandable that the traditionally Southern states would have more than the rest, but I was intrigued that they seem to group in the East Coast and Texas, with a relatively large number in California and Tennessee. Is this simply a factor of the size of the cities or is there another reason why the east coast, Texas, and Tennessee attract large churches (and possibly California given its not a traditionally Southern area)?

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   • Thom Rainer says:

     January 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm

     Interesting observations William.

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   • Jeff says:

     January 30, 2013 at 9:48 pm

     William, more than anything you will find high concentrations of large churches in large metroploitan areas. Dallas/Ft Worth is the 4th largest metro area in the country, Houston is 5th, and Atlanta is 9th. You will find over 25% of SBC megachurches just in these three areas. When Miami is added (8th largest), those four areas will account for about 30%. California is not a traditional SBC stronghold, but there are about 38 million people there, so..

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   • Tom says:

     March 1, 2013 at 12:48 pm

     Looks like someone has done their homework. Nice analysis.

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     • Thom Rainer says:

       March 1, 2013 at 1:28 pm

       Thank you!

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8. John Strickland says:

   January 26, 2013 at 1:26 pm

   I’d be interested in a per capita CP giving column next to these attendance numbers…probably won’t happen because of how embarrassing it would be to the powers that be.

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   • Bob Rogers says:

     February 19, 2013 at 10:00 am

     John, our church (FBC Rincon, GA #586 above) gives 13% to CP plus 2% to the association. Not embarrassed at all to share it.

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9. Mike K says:

   January 26, 2013 at 2:00 pm

   Dr. Rainer, which year are these numbers from? The 2012 ACP? Or earlier? Thanks for sharing this information.

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   • Thom Rainer says:

     January 26, 2013 at 2:41 pm

     Mike -

     They are the 2011 numbers reported in 2012.

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10. Brad East says:

    January 28, 2013 at 10:08 am

    Good morning, Thom. Thank you for the report. When I came to First Baptist Arnold in 1997, I began getting Lifeway reports for top 200 churches in worship, Bible Study , baptisms and budgets, I always got the report at or near the end of April each year. When Jimmy Draper left Lifeway, for some reason the requested reports stopped coming. 1- Is it possible for me to get those reports? 2- If so, when? 3- If not, why? Thanks for the excellent job you are doing at Lifeway. Your brother, Brad East, senior associate pastor, First Baptist Church Arnold.

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      January 28, 2013 at 10:55 am

      Brad -

      I am not familiar with those reports. I have not found anyone at LifeWay that has recollection of them either. I am in my eighth year at LifeWay, so there is obviously an information gap. Do you have some old reports you can send me?

      Thanks.

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11. David Eaton says:

    January 28, 2013 at 10:32 am

    Thom,

    Do you know what fraction of SBC people attend the big churches? While it’s true that only 1.3% of churches are above 1,000 in attendance, my guess is that they make up a large fraction of attendance. It would be fun to get into that data and ask it some interesting questions (says the nerdy economist).

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      January 28, 2013 at 2:37 pm

      Dave -

      Less than one-half of one percent of SBC churches report an average worship attendance of 2,000 or more, but 12.6% of the total attendance of the denomination is now concentrated in these relatively few churches.
      Only 1.3% of all SBC churches have an attendance of 1,000 or more, but 22.2% of the total denominational attendance is in these congregations.
      Only 4.4% of the churches have an attendance of 500 or more, but 35.3% of the attendance of 46,000 churches is concentrated in just those few churches.

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12. Mike N says:

    January 29, 2013 at 11:45 am

    Dr. Rainer,

    Thanks for sharing this information. In response to some of the replies above, I find it interesting that the first reaction of some in the SBC to information like this is to be suspicious and to attempt to discredit these churches. Why raise the issue of CP giving? Why ask if these churches are planting other churches or just focusing “on getting bigger,” as if seeking to reach as many people as possible for Christ with the gospel was a negative thing.

    This information was not posted to denigrate smaller churches. God has a purpose in his kingdom work for churches of all sizes and styles and strategies. Why not just accept that and rejoice in what God is doing?

    Pride comes in many forms. And if a large church is proud of its size, while a smaller church is proud of its CP giving, etc., isn’t God dishonored and displeased in either case? Envy or jealousy is sin too. If you feel compelled to cast suspicion on larger churches, that says more about you than it does about those churches.

    Some large churches may be shallow and led by egotistical leaders (some small churches are as well… maybe that’s why few attend). Some large churches are gospel-centered, with rich discipleship and equipping ministries to go along with effective evangelism. Some small churches are effective in reaching their community with the gospel, and make sacrificial contributions to the cause of global mission. Some small churches are insular, bound by their traditions, uncaring about those around them and ineffective in reaching their communities. And some of those churches give lots of money to CP.

    In the end, why not be gracious and loving toward all churches, especially all of these churches all across the SBC that none of us can really know much about? Love believes all things (1 Cor 13:7). It isn’t suspicious. Let’s stop passing judgment on one another… let’s make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification… we’re all servants who will stand or fall before our Master. (Rom 14).

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    • Mark Waggoner says:

      January 30, 2013 at 11:19 am

      Both large, medium and small congregations are needed in the Kingdom of God. We need not compete, but complement one another. We smaller SBC churches may need the resources (both spiritual and financial) of our larger sister churches from time to time at some level to advance the Kingdom. On a socio-economic level, some of our “poor” congregations in poor neighborhoods are rich spiritually! Amen?

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    • RTRIPPLE63 says:

      March 12, 2013 at 1:18 am

      This is so true… lets praise God instead of worrying about the size or CP.

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13. David Eaton says:

    January 30, 2013 at 11:36 am

    It would be interesting to see the time series on this data, is it a recent phenomenon that 1/3 of the attendance comes from the top 4.4% of churches? Robert Frank wrote “the winner take all society” about the factors that caused the top performers in a field to claim a larger and larger share of resources; it would be interesting to look at ACP data through that lens. This is especially true as technology allows us to have multiple campuses.

    It would also be interesting to look and see the impact of larger churches on growth patterns of the smaller churches in their region. I think the “Beyond Megachurch Myths” book looked at some of that, but it’s been a while since I looked in that area, and I lost my copy of that book quite a while ago…

    The economist in me sees a lot of interesting questions that could be asked of ACP data…

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14. Lee says:

    January 30, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    I think it’s pretty cool to realize that in a town with just a little more than 50,000 population, two of its churches make the top 100…Hendersonville, TN has Long Hollow Baptist (5,844…and this number is outdated by now) and FBC H’ville (2,795)! I’m a member of LHBC and, to answer one of the questions somebody asked above, yes, we’re planting churches all over the place! We have satellite churches in Nashville, Springfield, Madison, Gallatin, and plan to open another one soon. We also have built an orphanage compound in Jeremie, Haiti consisting of a church, kitchen, school, and housing for (I believe) 300 children; have another one in the works in Uganda, one in the planning stages for the Philippines and I think a 4th someplace else; and our members go on dozens of mission trips all over the world every year!!! This past Sunday, with a visiting evangelist, dozens of folks (I think a more accurate estimate would be hundreds, but I don’t know about any service but the one I was in…and I’m sure well over 100 in ours) made professions of faith!!! I agree that a big, “mega-church” is not for everybody, since it’s really hard to have the close fellowship we used to have when we were much smaller, and some other things are just impossible when a church becomes so enormous. However, it’s really hard to find too much fault when the people continue flooding through the doors and so many are being so blessed! As an older member now, I might not like everything as much as most of the younger ones, but to see all the lives that were changed Sunday was worth it all!!!

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    • Bob Rogers says:

      February 19, 2013 at 10:01 am

      Lee, amen! Our church (FBC Rincon, GA #586 above) is in a town of about 10,000.

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15. Bruce Cox says:

    February 2, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    Show us where the rubber meets the road…percentage given to local Baptist association, please.

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    • Tim Morrison says:

      February 5, 2013 at 12:42 pm

      Why does the amount given to the “local Baptist association” equate to “where the rubber meets the road”? I thought that terminology should be attributed to what the church is doing to further the Kingdom of God? Last time I checked, you could do that apart from the “local Baptist association.” Give me a break.

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16. Leonard Prater says:

    February 7, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    I have a question. What does the churches on the list have to do in order to be considered Southern Baptist? I know of two churches on the list that promote themselves as non-denominational. Just curious.

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    • Mark Waggoner says:

      February 7, 2013 at 6:15 pm

      “Two churches on the list that promote themselves as non-denominational” probably don’t want the negative connotation associated with “Baptist,” particularly among this generation. As an active layman, I try to tell my home church folks that our present generation could not care less about the Southern Baptist Convention except for those contemplating the ministry and eventual “retirement.”

      Outside the eleven states of the old Confederacy, there is little knowledge of the SBC, despite the fact that we’re the largest (there go “numbers” again) Protestant denomination. It has been my experience that even here in an historical and traditional SBC stronghold such as Virginia, our (lay) young people are uneducated about our history, traditions, crises and controversies. I learned about such things in Training Union.

      Not to be “into” the SBC as an institution, is not a bad thing. As a “black sheep” of my young Boomer generation, I came to idolize the SBC. As an aging Boomer, I struggle with not denying who we Southern Baptists are now and not denying our past. Are there others out there who feel as I do? Help me, brothers and sisters!

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      • Mike Kelly says:

        March 1, 2013 at 2:58 pm

        Mark … at some point, for the sake of Kingdom work – this must change. I suspect I will see it in my lifetime. This perceived exclusivism of the SBC is unfortunate and not consistent with the generous and caring hearts of those within the leadership. History has taught us – the name of Jesus trumps the mere preservation of institutions … A re-branding of sorts has the potential of restarting and invigorating a wonderful body of believers with a greater emphasis on Missions (reaching out) rather than preserving the past (preservation). Given a Kingdom mindset, in my estimation you make a very valid point … Grace and Peace.

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        • Mark Waggoner says:

          March 1, 2013 at 3:32 pm

          Thanks, Mike! I’ve needed your affirmation (outside of my home church) for a long time.

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17. Rick Lowhorn says:

    February 13, 2013 at 12:13 pm

    Very interesting data. Just wondering if there was anything significant about the way the data plots in a linear plot. The change in church size seems linear up to about 3000 and then from there the sky is the limit. It seems to jump into an exponential change. Does this say anything?

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18. John says:

    February 13, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    Thom, I was wondering where you list was originated? SBC?

    I, too, recognized a few churches on the list that do not identify themselves as SBC churches. For instance, Crossing Church in Tampa (#32 on the list) has this at their website:

    The Crossing Church is an independent non-denominational church. We are not formally aligned with a specific denomination or governing body, but we believe in accountability in the body of Christ and have relationships and fellowship with several churches and Christian organizations.

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      February 13, 2013 at 12:59 pm

      John -

      The churches submit the data directly to their respective state conventions. The SBC does not generate the data on its own.

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      • patsy says:

        March 19, 2013 at 9:44 am

        Tom, I found your blog during some research on church growth. It is interesting to hear discussions concerning church size.
        First, the discussion on membership/attendance is interesting as always. My husband and I have served churches for 39 years, and in many churches I served as Sunday School Director. Therefore it became my duty to fill out annual reports. In “each” church I found discrepancies in record keeping. Most of the churches we served averaged between 150-250 in worship attendance. Their memberships were always way off. When reporting numbers for the SBC annual report CHURCH POP, the report ask for church membership. One secretary actually told me she was told to add a few numbers per year to show growth. Being an “outsider” as staff is often perceived, I had to tread with gloves to actually clean up the church books. Updating records will more likely show decline rather than growth. Most of the time, we found so call “members” who were deceased, moved out of state, not attending any church. We have come to value membership in the church more sacred than salvation of lost. In other words their membership takes the place of a persons relationship with Jesus and the Body of Christ.
        Church size may seem irrelevant to some but my reason for studying church growth is that churches that we served some 10, 15, 30 years ago have only maintained or slightly declined in attendance while population growth has exploded. There is a need for small churches, but small churches should be growing. We have hid behind the idea that small churches are meeting the needs of a certain group. Moving from one size of church to another calls for a mindset change that involves a different set of skills and knowledge just as meeting the needs of our children from infancy to adulthood requires a different mindset. Whether we want to agree or not, these mega churches started as small churches but were willing to embrace the changes needed to allow God’s spirit to work. Most small churches are stuck in the relational mindset, focusing on the inner relationships, members needs, comforts, and opinions rather than moving to interrelationships where the church is willing to include others. All churches regardless of size have a place in God’s Kingdom but it they do not have a heart for growth and a willingness to do whatever it takes to expand God’s Kingdom then we have missed our calling.
        Secondly, someone ask about the churches that did not call themselves Baptist but took other names rather than identifying themselves to Baptist. A church is affiliated with the SBC through the contribution in the Cooperative Program. While we seem to be concerned with upholding a set of beliefs, each church is autonomous therefore unless a church body is really out on a limb they operate and worship as they wish. I contend that we should focus on completing each other rather than competing with each other. Both small and large churches have something to learn from each other.
        Mr. Rainer, thanks for the information. This question may show my ignorance but without having to study each church my question would be not about CP participation but are any of these Cooperative Baptist Fellowship?

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19. Mike Kelly says:

    March 1, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    Tom … thanks for the info, this is actually most interesting. It is clear to me – God is doing a new work in the SBC. Thanks to you and Ed S., for your continued leadership.

    Grace and Peace,

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 2:51 pm

      Thank you Mike.

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20. Mark Waggoner says:

    March 1, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    Thanks, Mike! I’ve needed affirmation (outside of my home church) for a long time.

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21. Daniel Williams says:

    March 1, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Would be interesting to see the average number of those members in attendance on Sunday Morning.

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 4:04 pm

      The numbers shown are the morning attendance.

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      • Tripp Battle says:

        March 2, 2013 at 12:07 am

        I happen to know that one of the churches towards the end of the list actually runs about 350 people in their Sunday morning services. How they ended up on the 1,000 and up list is obvious. Pride, desire for recognition, and the furtherance of their own personal kingdom rather than God’s kingdom. I know that you are only reporting what you are given, so you would have know way of knowing who was and was not honest. Sad…

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22. Don Cox says:

    March 1, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    If Newspring is the one in South Carolina it is not an SBC church even though SBC gave money to help start it. They are independent evangelical.

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 4:49 pm

      The numbers and churches we show are submitted by the churches to their respective state conventions. We simply report what we are given.

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      • Dom cox says:

        March 1, 2013 at 8:13 pm

        I understand on data. Just clarifying
        about a church that one time was loosely affiliated at best.

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23. Ryan Ashcraft says:

    March 1, 2013 at 4:48 pm

    Just wondering where Calvary, Win is located?

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 5:37 pm

      The list shows Winston-Salem, NC.

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24. Keith says:

    March 1, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    Dr. Rainer,

    To put these numbers into context, what was the total average Sunday AM attendance for all SBC churches combined in 2012? I am curious what percentage of the overall attendance is reflected in these 603 churches. I calculated about 1.3 million total avg attendance in the 603 mega churches listed. I am curious what percentage of the total attendance is found in this 1.3% of the churches.

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25. PJ Tibayan says:

    March 1, 2013 at 8:05 pm

    Thom,

    Thanks for posting this. Do you have the churches with the most members of a church? I’m speaking of meaningful membership in the 9marks vein of thinking and not the names on the list who may be at other churches, fallen away, or passed away. It may be encouraging to see a list like that so that attendance is not the focus as much as members discipled and deployed for making more disciples.

    In Christ,
    PJ

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 8:14 pm

      PJ -

      No I don’t. Such a list does not exist because, unfortunately, most churches do not have meaningful membership.

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26. Keith says:

    March 1, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    A second question. I am curious if the distribution of the mega churches is similar to or different from the distribution of SBC churches overall. 74.5% of these 603 churches are in 8 states: Texas(22.6%), Florida(11.1%), North/South Carolina (10.9%), Georgia (10.3%), Tennessee (8.5%), Alabama (6.1%), and Virginia/DC (5%). Do these states hold close to 75% of the churches overall regarldess of size or is the distribution substantially different?

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 8:17 pm

      Keith -

      Good analysis. Perhaps one day in the near future I can do a similar analysis on all the churches. For now, I can say anecdotally that the states you named would have similar representation among all the churches.

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    • Keith says:

      March 1, 2013 at 8:34 pm

      These same 8 states have 77% of the attendance out of the 603 churches (1 million of the 1.3 million total attendance).

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27. David A Booth says:

    March 1, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    Thom,

    It is always a bit difficult to tell how accurate such statistics are. A couple of years ago, First Baptist Church in Dallas reportedly had more than 10,000 members. Given that they have just built a $130 million facility which is opening this Spring (with a 3,000 seat sanctuary and multiple services) I wonder if they really have declined to less than 3,000 members.

    Best wishes,

    David

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 1, 2013 at 9:58 pm

      True, but those numbers are self-reported by the church, and they represent attendance, not membership.

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28. JR says:

    March 8, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    I would like to know how many of these churches are reaching immigrants in their communities? And what kind of things are doing?

    Thanks

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29. Kenny Heath says:

    March 11, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    Thom:
    I realize that it was not the intention of your post, but it has raised a need in God’s Kingdom work that can become a great blessing for Southern Baptists and the lost in our communities. Some of the comments your post received from smaller churches, I believe, come out of a feeling that our contexts and needs have not been addressed and given as much emphasis as those of the “big boys”. Instead of trying to analyze and/or bemoan that, the truth of the matter appears to be that the Lord is leading toward more intensified focus on different aspects of the Kingdom work. At the SBC Bivocational/Smaller Church Leadership Network, we’re trying to bring interested parties together to seek the Lord for how He would have us do a better job to utilize the parts of LifeWay and other SBC agencies that DO work well for churches of 125 or fewer on Sunday morning, along with the same of state conventions and associations, AND the 30,000 SBC churches of that size and their pastors themselves. This will be a major discussion among DOMs at our upcoming national meeting in Mississippi in April. To see more, please go to http://www.bivosmallchurch.net . Praise the Lord—He is at work, doing BIG things in SBC churches, from the smallest to the largest!
    Kenny Heath
    Associational Missionary, Western Baptist Association, Cumberland, MD
    CPC, Western & Blue Ridge Baptist Associations
    VP for DOMs, SBC BSCLN

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 11, 2013 at 2:15 pm

      Thanks Kenny. God is indeed doing a great work across all size churches.

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    • Mark Waggoner says:

      March 12, 2013 at 7:07 pm

      Amen!

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30. Eugenia Freiburger says:

    March 23, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    Dr. Rainer, The list of SBC churches is very timely. I’m working on a research project for VA Baptists exploring the various governance models used by Baptist multisite churches. Currently, I have a list of 22 churches, and have interviewed close to 10 churches. Would you be able to resource me with the SBC churches that also have multiple locations/campuses? Please let me know.

    I serve as an independent church consultant. My D.Min. project focused on the multisite church movement where I developed a framework and a checklist for churches to use when launching multiple locations. I’m currently working with several churches in Virginia launching their 3rd and 4th locations and governance has become the hot topic for the day.

    Any assistance or continued conversation would be greatly appreciated.
    Dr. Eugenia Freiburger

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    • Thom Rainer says:

      March 23, 2013 at 5:23 pm

      I’m sorry. Our data on each SBC church does not include questions about multisites.

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31. Allen James says:

    March 31, 2013 at 4:54 pm

    The list includes “New Life Christian Fellowship” in Blacksburg, VA. I’ve looked at their website and can’t find anything about them being a part of the SBC. Is it possible they were previously but are not now? Or are they just doing a really good job of hiding their connection? (My son attends so I want to find out more about this church.) Thanks!

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