Today, the United Kingdom is home to more than 185,000 Mormons in 333 congregations. It remains a strength, a place where some senior church leaders spent formative years as missionaries and others have spoken in parliamentary group sessions in recent years.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Today, the United Kingdom is home to more than 185,000 Mormons in 333 congregations. It remains a strength, a place where some senior church leaders spent formative years as missionaries and others have spoken in parliamentary group sessions in recent years.
Craig Paxton wrote:The trends are clearly not headed in a direction that favors the church...
Were we expecting a continual increase?
Thy mind, O man! if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanse of eternity—thou must commune with God. - Joseph Smith
Craig Paxton wrote:The trends are clearly not headed in a direction that favors the church...
Were we expecting a continual increase?
No. We've always been at war with EastAsia.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Craig Paxton wrote:The trends are clearly not headed in a direction that favors the church...
Were we expecting a continual increase?
Weren't you? You can't tell me that what we are seeing today with the decline of church growth is what the so called prophets had in mind when they were predicting the stone rolling forth and filling the entire earth. But I guess its still a possibility...it'll just take some black plague that selectively kills off only non Mormon's and then I guess that prophecy could be fulfilled.
"...The official doctrine of the LDS Church is a Global Flood" - BCSpace
"...What many people call sin is not sin." - Joseph Smith
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Phillip K. Dick
“The meaning of life is that it ends" - Franz Kafka
Today, the United Kingdom is home to more than 185,000 Mormons in 333 congregations. It remains a strength, a place where some senior church leaders spent formative years as missionaries and others have spoken in parliamentary group sessions in recent years.
A strength? 185k (likely much lower for if we count only active) out of 65.64 Million is 0.002846 of the population. That doesn't sound all that strong to me.
This is the era I grew up in. We always made a point to let folks know we were the world's fastest growing church. The notion that we could expect membership to decrease would have been met with absolute derision. Gonna get that call to Missouri. Any day now. Any. Day. Now. Any...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Craig Paxton wrote:The trends are clearly not headed in a direction that favors the church...
Were we expecting a continual increase?
Per the Propaganda arm of the LDS Church:
Today, the United Kingdom is home to more than 185,000 Mormons in 333 congregations. It remains a strength, a place where some senior church leaders spent formative years as missionaries and others have spoken in parliamentary group sessions in recent years.
It is hardly a strength. The LDS church is the one claiming such. So don't ask us if there is an extended continual increase.
