The one big take away is the astronomical number of Lutheran denominations...and if demographics continue, I estimate there will be more Lutheran denominations in about fifty years than Lutherans.
I am from the UP of Michigan. The reason there are so many ALCA Lutheran churches in the UP is because of the large number of Finnish immigrants in that area. They are "Laestadian" in their theology. I'd love to see you do a video on them.
Fellow Yooper here! I’d also love to see a video on that as I don’t know much about Laestadian theology myself but I can confirm that the UP is very Finnish, especially in the Houghton area where all the ALCA churches were concentrated
Hello fellow Yoopers! Laestadianism came from Scandanavia to Calumet, MI and Cloquet MN in 1872 and grew from there, very conservative group but split into a couple offshoots. The map he shows is great and accurate, there's a large group of Finns down by Lakeland, FL, in fact they are now the largest group of Finnish speakers outside Finland (we lost that title) and yes Hancock is very Finnish, they even came up with a translation for Tezcuzco St lol
Thank you for an interesting series of videos. You left out the OCA (Orthodox Church in America) who don't have a comprehensive national map but parish locations by state, diocese or deanery. I tried posting the link but the YT police deleted it.🥵
Work out your issues, guys. It's one thing to have broad denominations (Pentecostal, Reformed, etc.). It's another thing to have things so fractured that the names start sounding like a Monty Python spoof (Judean People's Front vs. People's Front of Judea).
I think some of these are simply different in their organizational structures rather than being divided theologically. For instance, I'm aware that the ELS and WELS are in fellowship, meaning that they aren't really "divided" so much as they simply have different organizations. Same with, say, the Lutheran Brethren and the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, which are both part of the Lutheran Pietist tradition. I think a lot of this comes down to the languages that were spoken in these churches before their membership assimilated and began conducting their services in English. For instance, the ELS was originally known as the Norwegian synod.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so The Scriptures also instruct the faithful (not just the clergy, but the layman!) to beware of false teachers within the church. This means that they are not to accept the authority of a man and his teachings simply by virtue of his position within the church (because false teachers can also occupy positions within the church hierarchy), even if they themselves do not occupy a clerical position within that hierarchy, but must judge whether his teachings are consistent with "the faith that was delivered once for all to the saints." The book of Jude, from which that quote is taken, is all about this. Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church has not always done a good job of handling this issue (I do not fault them for having _had_ false teachers, for the Scriptures [such as the book of Jude] paint the picture that false teachers will inevitably arise within the church and that all we can do is react Biblically when they do). They have taught their lay members to simply go along with whatever the church hierarchy tells them, instead of teaching them to evaluate whether the people _in_ that hierarchy were false teachers at any given time. This led to the toleration of certain errors until they got so bad that several splits were inevitable, which is where we get the Reformation. I am coming at this issue from a perspective that is perhaps more charitable toward Roman Catholicism than many Christians' perspective (I know the Baptists often view the Catholics as a non-Christian cult on the same level as the Mormons and JW's; I do not take that view, coming from a more Lutheran perspective). I simply recognize that the Council of Trent effectively anathematized the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith apart from works as taught in Ephesians 2:8-9, and that the people who came up with that decision therefore should be judged (even by the laity) to be false teachers according to scriptures such as the book of Jude.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so James isn't supposed to be the pope--no one is supposed to be the pope, as the Eastern Orthodox Church has been reminding you for a thousand years (and the Protestant churches for 500 years). But James was the one who made the final decision in Acts 15, commissioning the letter that set the requirements for Gentile converts.
23:54 the map groups multiple locations under one dot, so there are significantly more than it shows. For instance there are 77 locations in the area of Las Vegas shown as two dots. And there are often multiple wards per location.
LDS is the fourth largest single denomination in the country even when you subtract the two million inactive members off the rolls and it's down to four million.
Thank you RTH for mentioning us, The Church of God(Charleston, TN), it was really cool to be represented on your channel! That being said we need to remember the difference between "Denomination" and "Organization". TCOG, for example, is not a Denomination unto ourselves. We are most closely associated with the classic Pentacostal denominational tradition but we are just an organization. Keep the videos coming RTH!! 😁
0:06 American Association of Lutheran Churches 0:38 Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod 1:31 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod 2:19 Evangelical Lutheran Synod 2:34 Church of the Lutheran Confession 3:06 Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ 3:35 North American Lutheran Church 4:05 Association of Free Lutheran Churches 4:27 Apostolic Lutheran Church of America 4:54 Church of the Lutheran Brethren 5:37 Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America 6:07 The Evangelical Covenant Church 6:40 Berean Fellowship of Churches 7:13 Grace Advance Churches 7:38 Grace Gospel Fellowship 8:24 Moravian Church in America 8:51 New Apostolic Church USA 9:48 The Local Churches 10:24 Family Integrated Churches 10:50 Independent Sacramental Movement 11:24 Apostolic Faith Church 11:35 Grace International 11:50 Elim Fellowship Churches 12:30 Ministers Fellowship International 13:06 Church of God (Charleston, TN) 13:32 Congregational Holiness Church 13:46 International Pentecostal Church of Christ 13:56 Reformed Church in America 14:42 Christian Reformed Church in North America 15:08 United Reformed Churches in North America 15:35 Protestant Reformed Churches in America 16:19 Reformed Church in the US 16:53 Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches 17:28 Acts 29 17:54 Bible Fellowship Church 18:14 ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians 18:40 Evangelical Presbyterian Church 18:57 Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America 19:17 Vanguard Presbyterian Church 19:33 Cumberland Presbyterian Church 19:57 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America 20:38 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America 20:49 Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia 21:02 Serbian Orthodox Church in North, Central, and South America 21:16 Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Archdiocese of North America 21:34 Eritrean Orthodox Tehwahdo Church Diocese of USA and Canada 21:58 International Churches of Christ 22:24 International Christian Churches 22:38 True Jesus Church 22:47 Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith 26:43 Seventh Day Baptists Non-Christians 23:10 Church of God General Conference 23:35 Church of Christ, Scientist 23:54 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 24:15 Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites) 24:29 Church of God (Seventh Day) 25:04 Church of God Network 25:38 Church of God A Worldwide Association 25:45 Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement 26:10 The Twelve Tribes
@@vaughanjones5933 Yes because 1) there is in fact an objective definition of what are normal Christian beliefs and 2) those strict definitions have unfortunately been stretched because of endless fallouts between various groups, but still most Christians are not willing to extend those definitions beyond the normal trinitarian and christological beliefs
You are correct about the current RCUS came from the Eureka Classes. Dutch immigrant movement in the US helps explain the location densities of the RCA, CRCNA, URCNA, PRC, Netherlands, and Heritage reformed congregations. NW Iowa, SW Minnesota, and SE South Dakota in particular.
I'm putting together a composite map of all Orthodox parishes in full [or effectively full] communion in the U.S. and Canada (incl. GOArch, AOCANA, [ROCOR], OCA). I'm doing this the long way around by manually fixing the tagging of churches on OpenStreetMap and mapping missing parishes. The purpose of this for me is to provide a tool to help Orthodox travelling in North America to find a Parish along the way on their travels; to the Orthodox there may be a preference, but ultimately the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is familiar in all Parishes. I'll publish a usable rendered map for purposes like yours as well. :+ )
WELS is still paying the price for being in the Synodical Conference. They let the LCMS cover the area outside their core. However they are working on it. The current home mission program is to establish 100 mission churches within the 10 year program. Some are in the core (hitting growing areas) but many are outside (like working to establish a church in Bentonville, Arkansas).
I was looking at the SDA map, and i can see why you couldn't really add it. The sda website doesn't have a nice big picture you that you can see all the pins of all the churches. But it does show quite a few locations if you scroll closer to the state/region on the map.
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin (less than 8000 people) and we had the widest variety of denominations I have ever seen, even more than many cities. Catholic, Lutheran, Bethel Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Church of Christ, Seventh Day Adventist, Baptist (not sure what kind), Assemblies of God, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witness, and a couple I don't remember. There also were Amish in the area but they don't have a church, just house meetings. We were an old town that was a crossroads of the state so there never were any single large group of immigrants who settles there.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so No it isn't. The first Roman Catholic Church was established 400 years after the death of Jesus and has been constantly changing so now it bears no resemblance whatsoever to Jesus' ministry. The doctrine of Peter as the first pope was established in 424 CE when the Roman bishops decided that they needed a reason to establish that the Bishop of Rome should be the head of the church. There is no church in existence that follows Jesus' teachings to the letter which means that there is no one right church. It is all about which doctrine feeds you what you want to believe.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so Because at that time "pope" meant nothing more than the bishop of Rome. It was not the head of the entire Catholic Church until the 400's when Innocent I declared it. The east-west schism was just starting and the Romans wanted to make sure they were in control, not the Christians in Constantinople.
Of all channels I follow, you're probably the best at giving impartial information. I know you're Baptist and I'd be interested to see how you rank denominations in terms of how much you agree with them
Around 15 minutes in, you asked what's going one with all the CRC churches at the tri-state area of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. The reason for that is there is a very high Dutch population in the greater Sioux Falls area.
A lot of them were, like the German Catholic St. Joseph parish church in downtown San Antonio by the alamo (a large mall was built around it, it’s pretty cool looking)
I find it so fascinating how united yet devided we all are. Really hope Orthodoxy picks up here in the next couple years, a lot of people clearly need the true traditional practices and solice of christ. Check out a Greek Orthodox church if you're interested, the most grounded and accepting Christians on this earth.
@@geordiewishart1683good job Christians have eternal life and do not die, at least so I learnt in my Evangelical/Pentecostal days. Thank God for Hebrews 12 vs 1, I wonder what that describes, don't sound dead to me, what do you think?
The term cloud of witnesses does not imply that those who have gone before are still living. And it certainly does not mean that they are looking on. It is simply symbolic of the fact that we are not the first. Although Christ defeated death, death still awaits all sinners. We shall overcome death at the resurrection, and after the Great White Throne judgment, death itself will be cast into the lake of fire. So death is not yet destroyed. Indeed, during the millennial reign, people will still die. The idea of man having a soul which is immortal and conscious outside the body is pagan in origin. We have a spirit which returns to God at death. But this is just a poetic term for the spark of life. The spirit of all dead, saved and unsaved, returns to God. If the conscious immortal soul is true, what is it exactly? People believe it can hear and speak and feel. Sounds like a body. The souls under the altar written of in Revelation are symbolic. Even then, their only awareness was that their deaths had not been avenged. Hardly indicative of being omniscient of events on earth. It is hardly a blessing for the saved to live in heaven and to see all the suffering I earth. No. Scripture does not teach that we can pray to, or for the dead, as per Orthodoxy teaching.
The majority don’t want the orthodox church because its so divided into nations. Most people will never feel comfortable going to a church that is so focused on being russian/serbian/greek rather than simply christian. The russian orthodox church is so infused with russian nationalism and the russian government, the same goes for serbia.
"Why is there a big hole here in West Virginia? Why are there no churches in WV?" If you'd ever driven through West Virginia, you wouldn't ask that question. There is literally nothing in WV.
The school associated with Grace Gospel Fellowship, Grace Christian University, was originally founded in Milwaukee, WI but moved to Grand Rapids, MI. That's why you find a concentration of those churches in both states.
Actually, that’s not quite true. While he was the President, Bickertonites reject the idea that all church presidents are prophets, and the last prophet they had was William Bickerton in the 1800s
Aww, I’m sad you didn’t cover my denomination (organization?). 😭 The UPCI is a fairly large-sized church organization. And the organization website even has a church locator map! I thought for sure you were gonna put it in this video 😭😭
I couldn't use it. The UPCI map does not show all the locations on the map at once, like the ones I show in this video. It will only show churches in a 100-mile radius from the location you type into their box.
Yes, I know, but it's not the same as showing the congregations, so I didn't want to use any of those in this video, though I have used them in other videos.@@rubbishrabble
For John MacArthur's churches in addition to Grace Advance, The Master's Seminary has a map filled with graduates Churches around the USA and the world, that follow much of MacArthur's ministry.
Thanks for including the Seventh Day Baptists, though they would probably have preferred it if you had grouped them with the other Baptists where they belong. After all, the True Jesus Church also observes the 7th day Sabbath but you didn't group them with unrelated movements just because of that.
Great content! But one thing to correct about the Lutheran Brethren Milwaukee is not the location of the first church. Rather there were five founding churches that came together to create the denomination. I think Milwaukee is where they all came together at. One of the original five still exists in Colfax, WI. Maybe a second one. At the beginning there were three in WI and two in MN or vice versa. I can’t recall definitively. The CLB and AFLC are very closely related and will refer you to each other. I grew up in ND but I knew they were rare outside MN/ND
@@albertgarcia-wm6so Please quit spamming the same untrue comment everywhere. Or, maybe you should just keep it up, because you’re certainly turning people away from your church! & also representing the Historic tendency of RCs to blast & insult people, to demonize other churches which also contain children of God, to use force and manipulation to try & control others, such as during the Inquisition. It’s not drawing people to you when you spam the comments repeatedly. It’s quite insulting, annoying and repetitive. It displays your prideful superiority complex. But you probably already know this, so maybe you are subconsciously trying to drive people away from Roman Catholicism. So I guess I will say, keep up the good work at repulsing people.
If I could put together, and I do not know it to be possible, a map of the UPCI, WPF, and other Oneness Pentecostal organizations, would you be able to use them, or do they need to be from church websites?
10:15 I'm impressed you got The Local Churches. I notice a few missing in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania - maybe they're being included in the big Maryland-DC cluster. As of a few years ago, there were meetings in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Reading/Allentown, Bethlehem, and State College. Alternatively, they may have been too small to count. (The habit in the group is to not list a meeting officially until there is a core of people who have committed to staying there long term, so college towns like State College can have a long running meeting but not be listed because the transient nature of the population means the church could disappear after a few graduations and tenure offers.)
One difference I have noticed between the Baptists and the Seventh Day Baptists (SDB) is the Seventh Day Baptists like to obey the Old Jewish Dietary Laws like the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA). During my Research on this, the SDB Church I visited regularly put strong emphasis on the OT Dietary Laws, Seemingly ignoring JESUS' conversation with Apostle Peter about "Don't call anything Unclean that I have Made Clean." The two SDB Churches I have been to (one in TN and the other in Alabama), both done this.
You say Jewish. Do you mean Hebrew or Israeliteish? They are different terms. Jew was first used to describe someone from the Roman province of Judea. Whilst the name Judea derives from Judah, a tribe of Israel, Judean or Jew came to have no specific racial, ethnic, or religious meaning. In most modern translations you need to consider the context to discover if the author meant Israelite of Judah, someone who lives in or is from Judea, or someone who follows Judaism. Most rabbis agree that Judaism began when Judah was in exile in Babylon. It is in Babylon that the Talmud was commenced. Judaism may have its foundations in Hebrewism but it is not the faith of Moses. Many Babylonians returned to the kingdom of Judah with the true Judahites, and between the treatments many Edomites were forced to convert to Judaism. King Herod was not an Israelite. So even in Jesus time, many we would call Jews were not descended from Judah or Jacob Israel, or practiced the faith of the Israelites. The division of animals into clean and unclean must have been known to Adam and Eve, hence Abels offering of the lamb. Noah too knew of clean and leave unclean animals. So why do you call this a Jewish law?
@@geordiewishart1683 -- I am Sorry if I have made an ERROR. I am a Christian, but a Gentile before becoming a Christian. I said JEWISH because I thought the OT'S Mosaic Law was written for the Jewish People. Do I stand corrected? Probably Yes, because I usually do!!
And shortly after Peter's vision, some gentiles came knocking with questions. Which he might well have not answered without the vision's meaning in mind.
Whenever you see the word translated as gentile, bear in mind that it often means nation or nations. The idea of it meaning non Jewish is often erroneous. The modern church is confused over the identity of Israel and what part they have yet to play in end time events.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so -- I am Sorry to disagree but the Catholic Church was started by Constantinople around the time of the Council of Nicea in 325 AD if I remember correctly from my Philosophy & Religion Class years ago.
Thank You So Much. But I Can't Find Your Video On What Biblical Unitarians Believe. I Seen It Pop Up On UTube Then Disappeared. Hoping You Can Display It Again. Thanks.
Here you go. ua-cam.com/video/iuUAyQoNMEo/v-deo.html Also see this one on Bible Students if you have not, they have many similarities: ua-cam.com/video/YVbsbpRXWQI/v-deo.html
@@ReadyToHarvest - That Doesn't Look Like The Video That Popped Up Which Seemed To Only Be About "Biblical Unitarian". This Video Seems To Be Have The Consolidation Of "Biblical Unitarian" With COGGC. Did You Up Date "Biblical Unitarianism To COGGC ?
Grand Rapids is the place to be for a conservative Presbyterian. We have OPC and Vanguard for the Presbyterian side, and URC and the PRCA for the reformed side. Plus, we have Joel Beeke and his Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids! We have multiple great seminaries; Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, the PRCA one, and several others! Of course, the CRC has serious sway here as well, particularly with Calvin Theological Seminary. But I can hardly recommend that church.
@23:54 Did anyone see the cell phone study that showed weekly church attendance, at that the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints has as many people on a given Sunday as the Catholic church.
As someone who has been to every county in West Virginia, I don't think a lot of the churches here would have websites or belong to denomination organizations who do. Lots of independent Baptist/Pentecostal church on those country roads.
My wife and I were briefly a part of the "local Churches". They are not a cult, but they have their own translation of the Bible, which has a very peculair and (clumsy, in my own opinion) wording, so the way they talk about theology sounds very strange outside their group. I met a lot of great Christians. I only have two problems, one they are one of those groups who thinks they are the only true church, and second Witness Lee wrote notes for their translation and the church treats the commentary like its inspired. I remember disagreeing with some of their interpretations and they kept insisting i read the footnotes. When i said i didn't agree with the footnotes they seemed gunuinely baffled
That would be great to see!! Out of the 24 different churches that Francis is pope of, the Roman Catholic Church is the only one that’s Western! Many of the other 23 Eastern Catholic Churches allow things that Roman Catholics don’t, such as most of them allow married priests, especially if they were married before ordination. The Greek Catholic Church is pretty big in Ukraine. I have friends who are part of the Melkite Catholic Church. I know someone who was raised in a Syrian Catholic church in India, where they spoke Aramaic in the church services and have a tradition that Saint Thomas planted their church!Many of these eastern Catholic Churches are located in North America, wherever immigrants moved. @Ready To Harvest, would you consider doing a video on the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches? 💙🙏🏽💛🌻
@@PutlerHuyIo Actually I find it weird that I've lived in my house for 8 years now and never once had a JW or Mormon knock on my door. And there seems to be a bunch of JW churches here, and this city has the main temple for Mormons in NZ. So really expected to see them by now.
Where are Jehovahs witnesses and other russelite groups? Also groups like doughobors and other realy fringe geoups would have been cool. Still, thanks for the effort. This real put into perspective how small, big and spread some groups are or are not.
It’s interesting to see locations you’ve driven by shown on a national map. In my case: the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer as the lone dot on the LCMS map in my part of the state (west-central GA) Also noted that there is one LCMS church in Lee County, AL, just across the river, according to the map (probably either Opelika or Auburn)
@@albertgarcia-wm6so Well I am Catholic myself, so you’re “preaching to the choir”, to borrow a familiar phrase. Edit: wait a minute this seems copy-pasted.
@@salyluz6535 Pretty much. If people are going to become Catholic, I doubt it will be because of any UA-cam comments, and the general public is already tired of “impositions” of religious belief (just ask any LDS or JW).
It looks like West Michigan is home to almost everything. We love Jesus, no matter what the details of doctrine. God hates those who stir up contention among brethren.
I'd much rather see this as a map of 'Percent of X church compare to other churches. (e.g. There are 10 Luthern churches here compare to 50 churches of all other religions) This is really just a variation on a population density map. I'd like to see a *RELIGION* density map please.
Very fair, living each denomination its due, however small. If he were doing the countries of the world, he would give as much attention to China as to Lichenstein, as much attention to Russia as to Monaco or Dominica.
The lack of a map from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America explains a considerable part of the gaps. Speaking with more knowledge from North Dakota, the Roman Catholic Church and ELCA have to dwarf the number of other congregations on a statewide basis.
The WELS is embarking on a goal of planting 100 new churches in the US over the next 10 years. So perhaps that map might look a little different in a decade's time.
What Jesus said can't be changed People pick out random verses like John 1:1-3, Isaiah 9:6, John 8:58, Matthew 1:23, Mark 2:5-7, John 5:18, etc. thinking it proves Jesus to be God. But not one of these verses proves this. Why? Because he is not God. These scriptures can only be discerned through him, the Holy Spirit; only then can they truly see and understand what Jesus is saying. Jesus said “the Father is the one true God” (John 17:3, John 5:26). Once we have read or heard what Jesus has said, it will never change (Matthew 24:35). All who go against Jesus go against his Father, God-and God's wrath will abide on those who discredit and do not have a relationship with Jesus.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so So it sounds like Jesus wasn’t actually the founder of the Catholic Church. I know this because Catholicism is an *egregious lie* against God. Man took the testimony of Jesus and, like always, twisted it into this doctrine that is attributed to Jesus, but has nothing whatsoever to do with his message while he was here. Some people try to read the Bible as if it is a historical text, which it is, but the intention of reading is to gain insight from the Holy Spirit, not subject to our own understandings (Proverbs 3:5-6). There are so many Catholics who do the "will of God," but will never enter his kingdom because they do not believe in the Father (Matthew 7:21-23). Instead, they are disobedient to God and continue to do practices that are unbiblical. Many will believe the leaders of the Catholic Church for this reason, but the deception will come into the light; mark my words. If you pray to anyone outside of Jesus, this includes Mary, you are going against God’s word: "[27] And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. [28] But he said, *YEA RATHER, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it"* (Luke 11:27-28). The Catholic Church was not created by Jesus, just as you state here. Instead, it is the apostasy that was prophesied.
Im Apostolic pentecostal are denomination started in los Angeles calif 1914 after Azùsa street revival.but we go back to the book of Acts new birth being baptized in Jesus name
The Orthodox Church may have its problems in America, but at least all the patriarchates have churches in West Virginia!
Amen, Greek Orthodox churches are truly a miraculous beautiful place.
What about the Eritrean Orthodox community? I didn’t see a West Virginia church for them.
@@Kommunist_KittensI agree.
Appalachian Orthodoxy ua-cam.com/video/st0JsDKpcI8/v-deo.htmlsi=x0kgltzC9eXJlht6
@@davidroddini1512well they don’t have a patriarch hahaha
These maps bring to mind Mark Twain's famous quip that America is a truly blessed land as "we have the true faith. All of them."
The one big take away is the astronomical number of Lutheran denominations...and if demographics continue, I estimate there will be more Lutheran denominations in about fifty years than Lutherans.
Well, as the catholics sometimes say:'every protestant is his own denomination' 😂
I am from the UP of Michigan. The reason there are so many ALCA Lutheran churches in the UP is because of the large number of Finnish immigrants in that area. They are "Laestadian" in their theology. I'd love to see you do a video on them.
Fellow Yooper here! I’d also love to see a video on that as I don’t know much about Laestadian theology myself but I can confirm that the UP is very Finnish, especially in the Houghton area where all the ALCA churches were concentrated
@@mackenzieniswonger5168 Yes. They even have street signs in Finnish.
Yes, please do a video on Laestadianism. I have been trying to learn about it for a while.
Hello fellow Yoopers! Laestadianism came from Scandanavia to Calumet, MI and Cloquet MN in 1872 and grew from there, very conservative group but split into a couple offshoots. The map he shows is great and accurate, there's a large group of Finns down by Lakeland, FL, in fact they are now the largest group of Finnish speakers outside Finland (we lost that title) and yes Hancock is very Finnish, they even came up with a translation for Tezcuzco St lol
So, I guess only Finnish people can tolerate the cold weather of the Upper Peninsula.
Thank you for an interesting series of videos.
You left out the OCA (Orthodox Church in America) who don't have a comprehensive national map but parish locations by state, diocese or deanery.
I tried posting the link but the YT police deleted it.🥵
He included the OCA in his last video like this
@@NoName-yl3pb No, in the last video he said to watch out for maps of various groups including Orthodox in the coming video
@@jairiske my mistake! I thought I had just watched a video of his that mapped out the OCA
@@NoName-yl3pb no worries!
We must not be Orthodox enough for him if we don't have a foreign primate 🙂
Work out your issues, guys. It's one thing to have broad denominations (Pentecostal, Reformed, etc.). It's another thing to have things so fractured that the names start sounding like a Monty Python spoof (Judean People's Front vs. People's Front of Judea).
One of our bishops in the REC ACNA, Ray Sutton, engages in dialogue with a bunch of other denominations or other parts of the church.
I think some of these are simply different in their organizational structures rather than being divided theologically. For instance, I'm aware that the ELS and WELS are in fellowship, meaning that they aren't really "divided" so much as they simply have different organizations. Same with, say, the Lutheran Brethren and the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, which are both part of the Lutheran Pietist tradition.
I think a lot of this comes down to the languages that were spoken in these churches before their membership assimilated and began conducting their services in English. For instance, the ELS was originally known as the Norwegian synod.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so James settles the matter in Acts 15, not Peter. The one Catholic Church already broke in half 500 years before the Reformation.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so The Scriptures also instruct the faithful (not just the clergy, but the layman!) to beware of false teachers within the church. This means that they are not to accept the authority of a man and his teachings simply by virtue of his position within the church (because false teachers can also occupy positions within the church hierarchy), even if they themselves do not occupy a clerical position within that hierarchy, but must judge whether his teachings are consistent with "the faith that was delivered once for all to the saints." The book of Jude, from which that quote is taken, is all about this.
Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church has not always done a good job of handling this issue (I do not fault them for having _had_ false teachers, for the Scriptures [such as the book of Jude] paint the picture that false teachers will inevitably arise within the church and that all we can do is react Biblically when they do). They have taught their lay members to simply go along with whatever the church hierarchy tells them, instead of teaching them to evaluate whether the people _in_ that hierarchy were false teachers at any given time. This led to the toleration of certain errors until they got so bad that several splits were inevitable, which is where we get the Reformation.
I am coming at this issue from a perspective that is perhaps more charitable toward Roman Catholicism than many Christians' perspective (I know the Baptists often view the Catholics as a non-Christian cult on the same level as the Mormons and JW's; I do not take that view, coming from a more Lutheran perspective). I simply recognize that the Council of Trent effectively anathematized the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith apart from works as taught in Ephesians 2:8-9, and that the people who came up with that decision therefore should be judged (even by the laity) to be false teachers according to scriptures such as the book of Jude.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so James isn't supposed to be the pope--no one is supposed to be the pope, as the Eastern Orthodox Church has been reminding you for a thousand years (and the Protestant churches for 500 years). But James was the one who made the final decision in Acts 15, commissioning the letter that set the requirements for Gentile converts.
Thank you for all the work you put in these videos. I always enjoy your take on things and learn something new.
Wow. Mormons were EVERYWHERE.
I want to see a map of catholics, jws and sdas and especially the amish
Missionary work 'works'
I could probably make you several from the religious census data
23:54 the map groups multiple locations under one dot, so there are significantly more than it shows. For instance there are 77 locations in the area of Las Vegas shown as two dots. And there are often multiple wards per location.
@@lehijenks6778 yes that's true and Las Vegas is part of the Mormon Cultural Region
LDS is the fourth largest single denomination in the country even when you subtract the two million inactive members off the rolls and it's down to four million.
Thank you RTH for mentioning us, The Church of God(Charleston, TN), it was really cool to be represented on your channel!
That being said we need to remember the difference between "Denomination" and "Organization". TCOG, for example, is not a Denomination unto ourselves. We are most closely associated with the classic Pentacostal denominational tradition but we are just an organization. Keep the videos coming RTH!! 😁
0:06 American Association of Lutheran Churches
0:38 Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
1:31 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
2:19 Evangelical Lutheran Synod
2:34 Church of the Lutheran Confession
3:06 Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ
3:35 North American Lutheran Church
4:05 Association of Free Lutheran Churches
4:27 Apostolic Lutheran Church of America
4:54 Church of the Lutheran Brethren
5:37 Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America
6:07 The Evangelical Covenant Church
6:40 Berean Fellowship of Churches
7:13 Grace Advance Churches
7:38 Grace Gospel Fellowship
8:24 Moravian Church in America
8:51 New Apostolic Church USA
9:48 The Local Churches
10:24 Family Integrated Churches
10:50 Independent Sacramental Movement
11:24 Apostolic Faith Church
11:35 Grace International
11:50 Elim Fellowship Churches
12:30 Ministers Fellowship International
13:06 Church of God (Charleston, TN)
13:32 Congregational Holiness Church
13:46 International Pentecostal Church of Christ
13:56 Reformed Church in America
14:42 Christian Reformed Church in North America
15:08 United Reformed Churches in North America
15:35 Protestant Reformed Churches in America
16:19 Reformed Church in the US
16:53 Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
17:28 Acts 29
17:54 Bible Fellowship Church
18:14 ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians
18:40 Evangelical Presbyterian Church
18:57 Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
19:17 Vanguard Presbyterian Church
19:33 Cumberland Presbyterian Church
19:57 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
20:38 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
20:49 Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
21:02 Serbian Orthodox Church in North, Central, and South America
21:16 Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Archdiocese of North America
21:34 Eritrean Orthodox Tehwahdo Church Diocese of USA and Canada
21:58 International Churches of Christ
22:24 International Christian Churches
22:38 True Jesus Church
22:47 Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
26:43 Seventh Day Baptists
Non-Christians
23:10 Church of God General Conference
23:35 Church of Christ, Scientist
23:54 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
24:15 Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites)
24:29 Church of God (Seventh Day)
25:04 Church of God Network
25:38 Church of God A Worldwide Association
25:45 Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
26:10 The Twelve Tribes
What is with the 'non-christians' list? injecting your own denomination's prejudices? 😅
@@vaughanjones5933 Yes because 1) there is in fact an objective definition of what are normal Christian beliefs and 2) those strict definitions have unfortunately been stretched because of endless fallouts between various groups, but still most Christians are not willing to extend those definitions beyond the normal trinitarian and christological beliefs
Did he show map of catholic churches?
@@tomastomastomas1521 Not in this video. He might've gone over them in the last one or is waiting to go over them in another video
Thank you ❤
Have you covered the Hebrew roots cult movement?
I'm looking for material on that.
Thanks otherwise, your material is always great!
You are correct about the current RCUS came from the Eureka Classes. Dutch immigrant movement in the US helps explain the location densities of the RCA, CRCNA, URCNA, PRC, Netherlands, and Heritage reformed congregations. NW Iowa, SW Minnesota, and SE South Dakota in particular.
Also SW Michigan, around Holland.
I'm putting together a composite map of all Orthodox parishes in full [or effectively full] communion in the U.S. and Canada (incl. GOArch, AOCANA, [ROCOR], OCA). I'm doing this the long way around by manually fixing the tagging of churches on OpenStreetMap and mapping missing parishes.
The purpose of this for me is to provide a tool to help Orthodox travelling in North America to find a Parish along the way on their travels; to the Orthodox there may be a preference, but ultimately the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is familiar in all Parishes.
I'll publish a usable rendered map for purposes like yours as well. :+ )
That would be fantastic!
Don’t forget the Serbians!
@@NameN0tFound i will not forget them, nor the handful of others.
WELS is still paying the price for being in the Synodical Conference. They let the LCMS cover the area outside their core. However they are working on it. The current home mission program is to establish 100 mission churches within the 10 year program. Some are in the core (hitting growing areas) but many are outside (like working to establish a church in Bentonville, Arkansas).
I was looking at the SDA map, and i can see why you couldn't really add it. The sda website doesn't have a nice big picture you that you can see all the pins of all the churches. But it does show quite a few locations if you scroll closer to the state/region on the map.
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin (less than 8000 people) and we had the widest variety of denominations I have ever seen, even more than many cities. Catholic, Lutheran, Bethel Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Church of Christ, Seventh Day Adventist, Baptist (not sure what kind), Assemblies of God, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witness, and a couple I don't remember. There also were Amish in the area but they don't have a church, just house meetings.
We were an old town that was a crossroads of the state so there never were any single large group of immigrants who settles there.
On one street in our town within a mile we have a Baptist, LDS, Assemblies of God and a Muslim Mosque.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so No it isn't. The first Roman Catholic Church was established 400 years after the death of Jesus and has been constantly changing so now it bears no resemblance whatsoever to Jesus' ministry. The doctrine of Peter as the first pope was established in 424 CE when the Roman bishops decided that they needed a reason to establish that the Bishop of Rome should be the head of the church. There is no church in existence that follows Jesus' teachings to the letter which means that there is no one right church. It is all about which doctrine feeds you what you want to believe.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so Because at that time "pope" meant nothing more than the bishop of Rome. It was not the head of the entire Catholic Church until the 400's when Innocent I declared it. The east-west schism was just starting and the Romans wanted to make sure they were in control, not the Christians in Constantinople.
Of all channels I follow, you're probably the best at giving impartial information. I know you're Baptist and I'd be interested to see how you rank denominations in terms of how much you agree with them
Around 15 minutes in, you asked what's going one with all the CRC churches at the tri-state area of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. The reason for that is there is a very high Dutch population in the greater Sioux Falls area.
_Lots_ of Germans moved to Texas. I'd have expected them to be Roman Catholic, though.
A lot of them were, like the German Catholic St. Joseph parish church in downtown San Antonio by the alamo (a large mall was built around it, it’s pretty cool looking)
There's even a Texan dialect of German, though it is disappearing.
@@cactoidjim1477 the world wars and their consequences have been a disaster for the German language, especially in North America and Europe
I find it so fascinating how united yet devided we all are. Really hope Orthodoxy picks up here in the next couple years, a lot of people clearly need the true traditional practices and solice of christ.
Check out a Greek Orthodox church if you're interested, the most grounded and accepting Christians on this earth.
The true traditional practices?
Praying to and for the dead is not founded in truth
@@geordiewishart1683good job Christians have eternal life and do not die, at least so I learnt in my Evangelical/Pentecostal days. Thank God for Hebrews 12 vs 1, I wonder what that describes, don't sound dead to me, what do you think?
The term cloud of witnesses does not imply that those who have gone before are still living.
And it certainly does not mean that they are looking on.
It is simply symbolic of the fact that we are not the first.
Although Christ defeated death, death still awaits all sinners. We shall overcome death at the resurrection, and after the Great White Throne judgment, death itself will be cast into the lake of fire.
So death is not yet destroyed.
Indeed, during the millennial reign, people will still die.
The idea of man having a soul which is immortal and conscious outside the body is pagan in origin.
We have a spirit which returns to God at death. But this is just a poetic term for the spark of life. The spirit of all dead, saved and unsaved, returns to God.
If the conscious immortal soul is true, what is it exactly? People believe it can hear and speak and feel. Sounds like a body.
The souls under the altar written of in Revelation are symbolic.
Even then, their only awareness was that their deaths had not been avenged.
Hardly indicative of being omniscient of events on earth.
It is hardly a blessing for the saved to live in heaven and to see all the suffering I earth.
No. Scripture does not teach that we can pray to, or for the dead, as per Orthodoxy teaching.
@@geordiewishart1683Bro hasn’t read any of St. Paul’s epistles 😭
The majority don’t want the orthodox church because its so divided into nations. Most people will never feel comfortable going to a church that is so focused on being russian/serbian/greek rather than simply christian. The russian orthodox church is so infused with russian nationalism and the russian government, the same goes for serbia.
Thanks for your hard work on this!
"Why is there a big hole here in West Virginia? Why are there no churches in WV?"
If you'd ever driven through West Virginia, you wouldn't ask that question. There is literally nothing in WV.
As in money? Noooo money?
Racist
There are Orthodox churches, apparently.
@@Ggdivhjkjland I believe the last remaining snake handling Pentecostal church
Another great video! I like your teaching style. 😎
This guy is incredible. He clearly knows the idiosyncrasies of various church bodies.
Very awesome! If there’s enough for a part three I’d love to see it. Shame there weren’t maps for the ARP and OPC.
Many Lutherans were Scandinavian, not German.
The school associated with Grace Gospel Fellowship, Grace Christian University, was originally founded in Milwaukee, WI but moved to Grand Rapids, MI. That's why you find a concentration of those churches in both states.
Alice Cooper's grandpa was the Prophet and President of the Bickertonite LDS church
Actually, that’s not quite true. While he was the President, Bickertonites reject the idea that all church presidents are prophets, and the last prophet they had was William Bickerton in the 1800s
I’m surprised he didn’t include the Community of Christ. 2nd largest Mormon denomination with a quarter million members, and they’re trinitarian too.
@@KnuttyEntertainment unfortunately Community of Christ doesn’t have a map of congregations
The LCMS is color by the different districts.
Aww, I’m sad you didn’t cover my denomination (organization?). 😭 The UPCI is a fairly large-sized church organization. And the organization website even has a church locator map! I thought for sure you were gonna put it in this video 😭😭
I couldn't use it. The UPCI map does not show all the locations on the map at once, like the ones I show in this video. It will only show churches in a 100-mile radius from the location you type into their box.
The Association of Religion Data Archives has adherence rate maps for all top 100 denominations in the contiguous 48 states.
Yes, I know, but it's not the same as showing the congregations, so I didn't want to use any of those in this video, though I have used them in other videos.@@rubbishrabble
@@ReadyToHarvest Maybe do a mix and match. Metropolitan area with the overall Penecostal family tree 🌳. That might fit in with a 100 mile radius map.
For John MacArthur's churches in addition to Grace Advance, The Master's Seminary has a map filled with graduates Churches around the USA and the world, that follow much of MacArthur's ministry.
Thanks for including the Seventh Day Baptists, though they would probably have preferred it if you had grouped them with the other Baptists where they belong. After all, the True Jesus Church also observes the 7th day Sabbath but you didn't group them with unrelated movements just because of that.
Interesting how the Acts 29 church has zero presence on the West Coast I5 corridor.
Great content! But one thing to correct about the Lutheran Brethren
Milwaukee is not the location of the first church. Rather there were five founding churches that came together to create the denomination. I think Milwaukee is where they all came together at. One of the original five still exists in Colfax, WI. Maybe a second one.
At the beginning there were three in WI and two in MN or vice versa. I can’t recall definitively.
The CLB and AFLC are very closely related and will refer you to each other.
I grew up in ND but I knew they were rare outside MN/ND
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Please quit spamming the same untrue comment everywhere. Or, maybe you should just keep it up, because you’re certainly turning people away from your church! & also representing the Historic tendency of RCs to blast & insult people, to demonize other churches which also contain children of God, to use force and manipulation to try & control others, such as during the Inquisition.
It’s not drawing people to you when you spam the comments repeatedly. It’s quite insulting, annoying and repetitive. It displays your prideful superiority complex. But you probably already know this, so maybe you are subconsciously trying to drive people away from Roman Catholicism. So I guess I will say, keep up the good work at repulsing people.
If I could put together, and I do not know it to be possible, a map of the UPCI, WPF, and other Oneness Pentecostal organizations, would you be able to use them, or do they need to be from church websites?
I am willing to use quality maps from anywhere. So yes, I would use them.
I knew the Moravian Church is a thing in Pennsylvania, but I didn't know there was one fairly close to me.
The CRC church map is weird cause it’s based on the amount of Dutch immigrants to an area. That’s why there’s a surge in Michigan and Iowa.
10:15 I'm impressed you got The Local Churches. I notice a few missing in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania - maybe they're being included in the big Maryland-DC cluster. As of a few years ago, there were meetings in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Reading/Allentown, Bethlehem, and State College. Alternatively, they may have been too small to count. (The habit in the group is to not list a meeting officially until there is a core of people who have committed to staying there long term, so college towns like State College can have a long running meeting but not be listed because the transient nature of the population means the church could disappear after a few graduations and tenure offers.)
I know there are not many of us in the US anymore, but you do have a video on Friends. I don’t know of a map that shows them all though.
Each non-denominational church is its own denomination, so there are indeed tens of thousands of Protestant denominations.
One difference I have noticed between the Baptists and the Seventh Day Baptists (SDB) is the Seventh Day Baptists like to obey the Old Jewish Dietary Laws like the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA).
During my Research on this, the SDB Church I visited regularly put strong emphasis on the OT Dietary Laws, Seemingly ignoring JESUS' conversation with Apostle Peter about "Don't call anything Unclean that I have Made Clean."
The two SDB Churches I have been to (one in TN and the other in Alabama), both done this.
You say Jewish.
Do you mean Hebrew or Israeliteish?
They are different terms.
Jew was first used to describe someone from the Roman province of Judea.
Whilst the name Judea derives from Judah, a tribe of Israel, Judean or Jew came to have no specific racial, ethnic, or religious meaning.
In most modern translations you need to consider the context to discover if the author meant Israelite of Judah, someone who lives in or is from Judea, or someone who follows Judaism.
Most rabbis agree that Judaism began when Judah was in exile in Babylon.
It is in Babylon that the Talmud was commenced.
Judaism may have its foundations in Hebrewism but it is not the faith of Moses.
Many Babylonians returned to the kingdom of Judah with the true Judahites, and between the treatments many Edomites were forced to convert to Judaism.
King Herod was not an Israelite.
So even in Jesus time, many we would call Jews were not descended from Judah or Jacob Israel, or practiced the faith of the Israelites.
The division of animals into clean and unclean must have been known to Adam and Eve, hence Abels offering of the lamb.
Noah too knew of clean and leave unclean animals.
So why do you call this a Jewish law?
@@geordiewishart1683 -- I am Sorry if I have made an ERROR. I am a Christian, but a Gentile before becoming a Christian. I said JEWISH because I thought the OT'S Mosaic Law was written for the Jewish People. Do I stand corrected? Probably Yes, because I usually do!!
And shortly after Peter's vision, some gentiles came knocking with questions. Which he might well have not answered without the vision's meaning in mind.
Whenever you see the word translated as gentile, bear in mind that it often means nation or nations.
The idea of it meaning non Jewish is often erroneous.
The modern church is confused over the identity of Israel and what part they have yet to play in end time events.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so -- I am Sorry to disagree but the Catholic Church was started by Constantinople around the time of the Council of Nicea in 325 AD if I remember correctly from my Philosophy & Religion Class years ago.
16:33 One of these congratulations seems to share a building with a Presbyterian Church.
Thank You So Much.
But I Can't Find Your Video On What Biblical Unitarians Believe.
I Seen It Pop Up On UTube Then Disappeared.
Hoping You Can Display It Again. Thanks.
Here you go. ua-cam.com/video/iuUAyQoNMEo/v-deo.html
Also see this one on Bible Students if you have not, they have many similarities: ua-cam.com/video/YVbsbpRXWQI/v-deo.html
@@ReadyToHarvest - Thank You
@@ReadyToHarvest - That Doesn't Look Like The Video That Popped Up Which Seemed To Only Be About "Biblical Unitarian". This Video Seems To Be Have The Consolidation Of "Biblical Unitarian" With COGGC. Did You Up Date "Biblical Unitarianism To COGGC ?
@@ReadyToHarvest - Ok I Get It Now. It Was The Intro Add Page That Was Starting At A Different Time. I See It's The Same Video Now.
Grand Rapids is the place to be for a conservative Presbyterian. We have OPC and Vanguard for the Presbyterian side, and URC and the PRCA for the reformed side. Plus, we have Joel Beeke and his Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids! We have multiple great seminaries; Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, the PRCA one, and several others!
Of course, the CRC has serious sway here as well, particularly with Calvin Theological Seminary. But I can hardly recommend that church.
With the LDS map you also get a lot more red dots when you zoom in to an area.
When you say "Missouri" it sounds like you're saying "Misery." I'm from the Midwest and we say MisSOUri.
As a Floridian, it's unique to see the concentration of Northern denoms here. LCMS is a big presence.
@23:54 Did anyone see the cell phone study that showed weekly church attendance, at that the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints has as many people on a given Sunday as the Catholic church.
Please link that to me, I really want to see it.
@@KnuttyEntertainment I can't add links here it's a University of Chicago study
As someone who has been to every county in West Virginia, I don't think a lot of the churches here would have websites or belong to denomination organizations who do. Lots of independent Baptist/Pentecostal church on those country roads.
My wife and I were briefly a part of the "local Churches". They are not a cult, but they have their own translation of the Bible, which has a very peculair and (clumsy, in my own opinion) wording, so the way they talk about theology sounds very strange outside their group. I met a lot of great Christians. I only have two problems, one they are one of those groups who thinks they are the only true church, and second Witness Lee wrote notes for their translation and the church treats the commentary like its inspired. I remember disagreeing with some of their interpretations and they kept insisting i read the footnotes. When i said i didn't agree with the footnotes they seemed gunuinely baffled
Can't wait to see the denomination tier list and iceberg
Thank you, Brother Joshua 🌹⭐🌹
Your NALC map is missing congregations in the NE Iowa area near MN and Wi.
He says he “found” these maps. He’s not MAKING these maps and “forgetting” your church.
You should do maps of Eastern Catholics
That would be great to see!! Out of the 24 different churches that Francis is pope of, the Roman Catholic Church is the only one that’s Western! Many of the other 23 Eastern Catholic Churches allow things that Roman Catholics don’t, such as most of them allow married priests, especially if they were married before ordination. The Greek Catholic Church is pretty big in Ukraine. I have friends who are part of the Melkite Catholic Church. I know someone who was raised in a Syrian Catholic church in India, where they spoke Aramaic in the church services and have a tradition that Saint Thomas planted their church!Many of these eastern Catholic Churches are located in North America, wherever immigrants moved. @Ready To Harvest, would you consider doing a video on the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches? 💙🙏🏽💛🌻
@@salyluz6535 I'm Maronite and we also use Syriac aramaic in our liturgy too!
I hope that you can make a third part.
I hope the Jehovahs Witnesses have a map, they like to think they're everywhere.
Joke's on you; they are creeping outside of your door as you type this. ✝
@@PutlerHuyIo Actually I find it weird that I've lived in my house for 8 years now and never once had a JW or Mormon knock on my door. And there seems to be a bunch of JW churches here, and this city has the main temple for Mormons in NZ. So really expected to see them by now.
For Lutheran churches, also look for Scandinavian immigrants in the upper Midwest.
Protestants: sola scryptura
Also protestants: divide into 50 interpretations of the bible based on ethnics and politics
Cool seeing the little dot in Corpus Christi for the Russian Orthodox mission church I attend
Where are Jehovahs witnesses and other russelite groups? Also groups like doughobors and other realy fringe geoups would have been cool. Still, thanks for the effort. This real put into perspective how small, big and spread some groups are or are not.
They don’t really have a good congregational map
Apostolic Lutheran here.
We don’t have a church in Kansas that I know of
It’s interesting to see locations you’ve driven by shown on a national map.
In my case: the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer as the lone dot on the LCMS map in my part of the state (west-central GA)
Also noted that there is one LCMS church in Lee County, AL, just across the river, according to the map (probably either Opelika or Auburn)
@@albertgarcia-wm6so Well I am Catholic myself, so you’re “preaching to the choir”, to borrow a familiar phrase.
Edit: wait a minute this seems copy-pasted.
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Yep, he’s just spamming the comments, and driving people away from your church.
@@salyluz6535 Pretty much.
If people are going to become Catholic, I doubt it will be because of any UA-cam comments, and the general public is already tired of “impositions” of religious belief (just ask any LDS or JW).
What about the bible missionary church? it is separate but very similar to the holiness denomination.
You should include/show all the Catholic Churches, last vid if I remember correctly you only showed parishes that have TLM
Unfortunately the Catholic church has not made such a map available.
Looking forward to the UMC/GMC maps
Not sure if you have checked out 119 Ministries and Hebraic Roots Network but they have maps
Crazy how imaginary friends can be so variable. But then, they’re imaginary.
As an athiest who converted to Christianity seeing comments like this make me cringe so much, reminds me of when I used to be this ignorant
@@e11-f2l Don’t believe you, but you’re free to have imaginary friends and live under a delusion all you want.
It looks like West Michigan is home to almost everything.
We love Jesus, no matter what the details of doctrine.
God hates those who stir up contention among brethren.
0:31 You forgot about Scandinavian immigrants
Imagine if they all formed a basketball league.
Wow!! The Bible Fellowship Church has Mennonite roots but became Reformed. That is quite a change!
Where is the Western Branch of American Presby-Lutheranism to be found?
I didn’t see a seventh day Adventist map. Where you not able to find one?
AFAIK there is no map that shows all SDA churches in the US all at once. It's the same way with most denominations as big as SDA is.
Can you do one of these on Canada?
I'd much rather see this as a map of 'Percent of X church compare to other churches. (e.g. There are 10 Luthern churches here compare to 50 churches of all other religions) This is really just a variation on a population density map. I'd like to see a *RELIGION* density map please.
Very fair, living each denomination its due, however small. If he were doing the countries of the world, he would give as much attention to China as to Lichenstein, as much attention to Russia as to Monaco or Dominica.
The takeout from this series is that the US is extremely religious with a myriad of denominations!
Does the church of god Cleveland Tennessee have a map
I've been fortunate to hone into a denomination down the street after solo bible study and research. Divine intervention haha
Awesome job!
Is this not the same upload as the one before last?
It is not.
I know there's Laestadian church in I think Waukegan been a while since I looked into them
Did not mention my denomination, The OCA or The Orthodox Church in America
OCA does not have a map of all their congregations, unfortunately.
No AG?
Why didn’t you show the Catholic Churches across the country
No such map exists, but maps of some catholic churches are in part 1.
Orthodox Church In America (OCA) is a significant omission.
I only collect maps that exist, and OCA doesn't have a map. It's only an omission on their part.
Thanks friend.
Where were all the reformed baptists at? 😢
Also we got slammed with the cults towards the end there.
Reformed Baptists were mentioned in the Part 1 video
I haven't heard of most of these denominations. Must be why I attend a non-denominational church. 😅
no church of Christ maps?????????????
As a European, why are the Dakotas so sparsely churched?
Not many people live there
The lack of a map from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America explains a considerable part of the gaps. Speaking with more knowledge from North Dakota, the Roman Catholic Church and ELCA have to dwarf the number of other congregations on a statewide basis.
You missed the PAW Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
No, I didn't miss them, they just don't have a map.
@@ReadyToHarvest that's really sad our website used to have a really nice global one
There are apparently no churches in Alaska or Hawaii
Ikr 😂 This video is for the MAINLAND USA I suppose 🇺🇸
The WELS is embarking on a goal of planting 100 new churches in the US over the next 10 years. So perhaps that map might look a little different in a decade's time.
What Jesus said can't be changed
People pick out random verses like John 1:1-3, Isaiah 9:6, John 8:58, Matthew 1:23, Mark 2:5-7, John 5:18, etc. thinking it proves Jesus to be God. But not one of these verses proves this. Why? Because he is not God. These scriptures can only be discerned through him, the Holy Spirit; only then can they truly see and understand what Jesus is saying. Jesus said “the Father is the one true God” (John 17:3, John 5:26). Once we have read or heard what Jesus has said, it will never change (Matthew 24:35). All who go against Jesus go against his Father, God-and God's wrath will abide on those who discredit and do not have a relationship with Jesus.
@@albertgarcia-wm6so So it sounds like Jesus wasn’t actually the founder of the Catholic Church. I know this because Catholicism is an *egregious lie* against God. Man took the testimony of Jesus and, like always, twisted it into this doctrine that is attributed to Jesus, but has nothing whatsoever to do with his message while he was here.
Some people try to read the Bible as if it is a historical text, which it is, but the intention of reading is to gain insight from the Holy Spirit, not subject to our own understandings (Proverbs 3:5-6). There are so many Catholics who do the "will of God," but will never enter his kingdom because they do not believe in the Father (Matthew 7:21-23). Instead, they are disobedient to God and continue to do practices that are unbiblical.
Many will believe the leaders of the Catholic Church for this reason, but the deception will come into the light; mark my words. If you pray to anyone outside of Jesus, this includes Mary, you are going against God’s word:
"[27] And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. [28] But he said, *YEA RATHER, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it"* (Luke 11:27-28).
The Catholic Church was not created by Jesus, just as you state here. Instead, it is the apostasy that was prophesied.
If you're going to show a map, stop on it for at least 5 Seconds. Your look at Texas flipped between three Maps in 5 seconds. You can do better
There’s no money to be made in West Virginia so some are avoiding it!
Started in Nebraska…and stayed there LOL
Im Apostolic pentecostal are denomination started in los Angeles calif 1914 after Azùsa street revival.but we go back to the book of Acts new birth being baptized in Jesus name
Where's the Catholic Church...
@@albertgarcia-wm6soThe catholic Church isnt The True Church.
In part 1.
No oca?
OCA doesn't have a map of all US congregations.