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Second Baptist Church Houston: Houston: TX Ed Young Sr. 23,700 [53] Southern Baptist Convention: Yes (6 campuses + online) Southeast Christian Church: Middletown [a 4] KY Kyle Idleman 25,940 [54] Christian churches and churches of Christ: Yes (11 + 1 in development + online) Southland Christian Church: Nicholasville [a 5] KY Jon Weece 12,500 [3]
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) [1] [2] [3] are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history and practice with the largely theologically conservative evangelical ...
However a 1999 study concluded only 8% of Christian churches had no single race making up more than 80% of the congregation. This same year, a study on Southern Baptist churches concluded that the mean Simpson's Diversity Index for race in the Southern Baptists Church was 0.098, with 0 being perfect homogeneity and 1 being complete evenness.
Elevation Church — a North Carolina-based megachurch that draws thousands of worshippers to its multiple campuses and has wielded a strong influence on contemporary Christian worship music ...
Protestant Church in Indonesia – 3.1 million [154] United Church in Zambia – 3.0 million [155] Evangelical Church of Cameroon – 2.5 million [156] Christian Evangelical Church in Timor – 2.0 million [157] Protestant Church of Switzerland – 1.9 million [158] Protestant Church in the Netherlands – 1.4 million [159]
Baptists are a denomination of Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.Baptist churches generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency (the responsibility and accountability of every person before God), sola fide (salvation by faith alone), sola scriptura (the Bible is the sole infallible ...
Mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Episcopal Church (76%), [30] the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (64%), [30] and the United Church of Christ (46%), [31] [32] have the highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita of any other Christian denomination in the United States, [33] as well as the most high-income earners.