The Christian Post website reports today (August 3, 2012) that the United Methodist Church (UMC) has continued to decline in the United States, according to reports released by all but four of the denomination's 59 conferences.
According to the reports, in 2011 the UMC suffered a decline of nearly 72,000 members, with 18 conferences reporting membership losses of 2 percent or more.
Mark Tooley -- president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and a practicing Methodist -- said that he did not feel confident in the survival of the UMC in America.
"Methodism in the U.S. has lost membership every year since 1964. It has lost over 4.5 million members. There is nothing in its U.S. policies that can or will reverse the decline in the near future," said Tooley.
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