Fading Prospects For LDS Growth: SDA and JW Are Doing A Much Better Job

[Wonhyo]

The reality of declining growth (and even the prospect of decline in actual membership) must be terrifying to most Mormon leaders.

Forty years ago, non-Mormon sociologist Rodney Stark looked at growth trends in the church and wrote that, if those trends were sustained within a reasonable margin, the LDS faith would have 250 million living members on its records by the year 2080. Proof that the church is true, in the minds of many believing members, including many leaders...

What's happening now in terms of growth or decline must be very frightening to the most of the church's top suits.