There is no Baptist authority that tells people how to worship. All decisions are made by the members of each local Baptist church. In the Baptist Church there is no set pattern for how the weekly ...
There is no audience at a service of worship, instead there is a congregation. People have all come together in order that they might share in the offering of worship to God. The main elements in ...
About 45,000 people now worship online and 8,275 in "other ways". Each church averages just one wedding and one baptism per year - about 1,200 in total. There were 50,000 per year in the late 1950s.
Among non-White populations, the sorting works differently, but partisan affiliation still increasingly drives where people worship. Clergy who aspire to have a purple church often walk on ...