Fastest growing church group

[Smalcald]

PS I agree with your non-Christian group list except for SDA's.

The SDA's are exclusive. They claim to be the only real Christians. That is why I included them. They are exclusive.

I didn't know that. I mean I knew they believed that they are right (heck we all think we are right) but I didn't know that they thought they were the only true Christians, that is disturbing.

Thanks for the answer. I will have to ask you some questions about you church after I read up a little!

[Khristeeanos]

PS I agree with your non-Christian group list except for SDA's.

The SDA's are exclusive. They claim to be the only real Christians. That is why I included them. They are exclusive.

I didn't know that. I mean I knew they believed that they are right (heck we all think we are right) but I didn't know that they thought they were the only true Christians, that is disturbing.

Thanks for the answer. I will have to ask you some questions about you church after I read up a little!

If you want to do some searches online, try these names:

The two most important tributaries for the larger movement resulted from the work of Barton W. Stone (1772-1844) and the two Campbells, Thomas (1763-1854) and Alexander (1788-1866) father and son.

It will give you a bit of history of how it came about.

http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/who.html

[Kabowd]

Can I ask a question? I honestly do not mean this to sound rude..so don't take offense, please. But...what is the significance in being the fastest growing anything? What is that supposed to indicate?

[Khristeeanos]

Can I ask a question? I honestly do not mean this to sound rude..so don't take offense, please. But...what is the significance in being the fastest growing anything? What is that supposed to indicate?

It doesn't really mean very much at all.

To me personally it just shows how evangelistic and missions focused our churches are.

The Bible only makes Christians only. We have no "ism's" or creeds or anything else. We don't spend large amounts of time preaching about doctrine or other things that can only bog down a church.

Our churches preach Jesus alone and how to grow into Christ. Not just "you gotta be saved" over and over again.

It is more like saying: "This is where we are and where we are going, hope you come aboard."

I do appreciate your question though, Tess.

[Khristeeanos]

Former U. S. President James A. Garfield was a member of a RM church. Here is a quote from him:

James A. Garfield, former president of the United States, is one of the best-known individuals associated with Christian churches/churches of Christ. He even served as a

[Work in Progress]

SDA's..........aren't Christian groups.

Please do not denigrate people like that. I think we should judge people as individuals, don't you? One of my dearest friends, a believer, is SDA. Her faith (and the practice thereof) would put many to shame. And Scripture says to beware of claiming who you "know" and don't know are saved. Thank you.

[Anne]

Doesn't seem a little worrying that wicca is the fastest growing religion in the world? Irrelevant of whether the question was worded right. We all get the point, right?

[Khristeeanos]

SDA's..........aren't Christian groups.

Please do not denigrate people like that. I think we should judge people as individuals, don't you? One of my dearest friends, a believer, is SDA. Her faith (and the practice thereof) would put many to shame. And Scripture says to beware of claiming who you "know" and don't know are saved. Thank you.

I was talking about the denomination, not specifically the people who attend it.

According to this link, the SDA church teaches:

[Pax]

Growth rates are no indication of truth, and ones religious affiliation should be based on truth. Portraying one's religion as "dynamic" and "up and coming" is an appeal to the desire of novalty. This desire of navelty should be avoided in religion. The purpose of the Christian Church is to pass down what was given to us by Christ and his apostles. It is the nature of start-up religions to generate high-sounding growth rates. Lets say I decide to start my own Church. It will begin with one member, myself. Then I talk my wife and daughter to join my up and coming dynamic new Churh. Now my Church is up to three members. Over the course of the year I get people off of this site to join my church, eleven members total. At the end of the year I can say that my church grew by 1000 percent. This rate will be much higher than older established churches or even newer churches that are only a few years old. The Mormans are notorious offenders in this area.

[the_raven_1313]

Doesn't seem a little worrying that wicca is the fastest growing religion in the world? Irrelevant of whether the question was worded right. We all get the point, right?

I have to say that it doesn't surprise me in the least how popular Wicca is becoming due to the success of the Harry Potter series, Charmed and Sabrina The Teenage Witch, to name just a few. These are all quite popular and a lot of parents don't see anything wrong with them and so they let their children watch them, then in turn the children get interested in the things that they see on the screen. Some, maybe even a lot might not agree with me on this though. What I will say though is that I believe in the saying, "that if you put rubbish in, then that is what you will get out".