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For those folks who love pie graphs like this: 
You may find this interesting. It's a breakdown of denominations of churches here on MyChurch as of March 2008: 
Nearly a third of churches identified themselves as non-denominational. I don't know how this compares to national averages, but I do know we have some unproportionally represented denominations. Catholic churches, for example, are only 4% of MyChurch churches, but I'm pretty sure there's a much larger share of Catholic parishes in the US. Salvation Army is also interesting. I'm guessing 2% of MyChurch churches is probably a lot higher than what's really out there. And that's mostly thanks to Eli and the folks running the Salvation Army network, MyCorps.org. |
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| Eli is doing a great job with MyCorps and MySalvationArmy. |
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Grant |
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April 03, 2008 at 6:18am |
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Of course a US denominational breakdown is not sufficient, because there are people here from all over the world. So the top Christian bodies according to http://christianity.about.com/od/denominationscomparison/ss/statisticschart.htm are:
1+ billion Catholics
225 million Eastern Orthodox
77 million Anglicans
75 million Presbyterians
66 million Lutherans
50 million Assembles of God
43 million Baptists
17 million Seventh Day Adventists
Now that's quite an interesting breakdown. If someone has the world wide percentages, that would be interesting too. |
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| Joe, this is pretty fascinating! |
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Cheryl |
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April 05, 2008 at 8:49pm |
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| Joe, this is awesome! |
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Chip |
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April 06, 2008 at 5:13pm |
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| Joe, I think the important point you are highlighting is whether or not mainline churches see social networking as important as other church traditions on MyChurch do. My sense is that mainline churches do not yet, and that non-denoms are showing the importance of it. I think it would be interesting to know if other social networking sites targeting different church groups have similar statistics. |
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Kathy |
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April 06, 2008 at 8:24pm |
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| Very interesting Joe (and Grant)! And I liked the Pac-man! |
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Sue |
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April 07, 2008 at 6:27pm |
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| This is very interesting. Gotta love a good chart :) Thanks Joe! |
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Joe,
I do not attempt to speak for all Salvationist, but I do know one thing. We, the Salvation Army people that I speak often too, love being a part of this great forum. I do want to thank Eli for his help in making this possible for us. Truth is, we just love JESUS! It's a nice prelude to heaven when the whole of Jesus lovers will be united in one place. Nice work setting this up. Maybe we can use this to win more souls to the kingdom. If it brings one.... It's worth all the work.
You're data is interesting. And you are correct, I believe. However, the Salvation Army is considerably larger than many would possibly know. Our practical ministry is seen more often than our Spiritual side, even though winning souls to the Kingdom is our motivation for all the works, in whatever format, we do.
I also look forward to getting to know other believers, worshipping the one true God, in cities and towns across the world, that I would've never known without mychurch.org.
God bless you all!
In "His" Service,
R. New |
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| The title really attracted me to this blog. "Denominational breakdown" I love it! I thought it was going to show the inadequacies of the Denominational church. I guess we don't need any stats for that huh? Anyway, it is interesting how we can all come together on this site and encourage each other, express some ideas, and have a little fellowship. |
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Joe |
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April 19, 2008 at 3:43pm |
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Thanks all for the comments. Rick - I (and am sure many others) have learned quite a bit about the Salvation Army from its presence here. So thank you for representing! Eli and I plan to do a lot more with the mycorps.org network over the next few weeks. Especially to encourage other Salvationists to write blogs and participate in discussions. If you have any ideas, feel free to shoot them over. Joe |
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| It's gonna be great... I know it. Thanks Joe. |
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| Where else can the entire body of Christ come together as one? =D |
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| This is really interesting! |
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Cathy |
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May 06, 2008 at 10:24am |
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| Whats Foursquare? And where is Ms. Pacman ? |
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