The SBC in graphics, interesting

[William Thornton]

Southern Baptist Convention--Number of Congregations (2000)


Note California with more SBC churches than Arkansas.

Southern Baptist Convention--Number of Adherents (2000)


Southern Baptist Convention--Rates of Adherence Per 1000 Population (2000)

No state is more Southern Baptist than Mississippi.

I believe one is compelled to conclude that the SBC is indeed a quite heavily southern denomination, by any measure.

Wonder what a CBF map would look like?

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: William, do you have the lrgend showing numerical values for the varied shades and colors?

[Big Daddy Weaver]

You need to click on the ARDA link, Ed.

[Bruce Gourley]

Some of these numbers seem inflated. I can say for sure that the Montana numbers (adherents and percentages) are inflated; both should be much lower. My guess is that the study used self-reported numbers and perhaps even extrapolated some data.

[William Thornton]

What? SBC stats inflated? Shocking!

[Mark]

[Ed Pettibone]

[David Flick]

[Big Daddy Weaver]

I'm not going to try to estimate a number - definitely don't know enough about CBFO

But it's gotta be more than 1,200. Between 22 CBF churches, that's only like 54-55 folks per church. I would guess that FBC Norman, FBC Oklahoma City and FBC Tulsa average a good bit more than 55.

[Chris]

[Haruo]

A comparison with ABC (and heck, throw in CBA and GARBC) can be interesting to contrast with SBC. Obviously, "American" pretty much equates to "not Southern".