While denominations are shedding members, nondenominational churches are growing. “[T]oday, 6.2% of all adults (and 13% of Protestants) identify with nondenominational churches, up from 4.5% of all adults (and 9% of all Protestants) in 2007,” according to Pew’s recent Religious Landscape report.
A related trend identified a few years ago by Duke University sociologist Mark Chaves is that Christians are “increasingly concentrated in the very largest churches.” Many of these are nondenoms. In fact, “most of the top 100 largest churches in the United States are now nondenominational,” says Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research.
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