It's really the model that's hurting the PCA's growth. While you can just grab and go at Panda Express, you have to order ahead of time at PCA (Panda Call Ahead).
I live in Thailand, and the woman that cleans our house comes from a small village in the hills of Thailand. There is no cell phone reception. There is only solar electricity. You need 4-wheel drive to make it on the dirt road into town. That village has a Catholic Church. It does not have a Buddhist temple or Protestant church.
Dude, your work is EXCELLENT. I really appreciate your approach: No invective, no snark, no grandstanding. No attempt to sacrifice accuracy to amp-up the entertainment value. Just an arms-length, calm, objective, charitable, and easily-understood presentation of the data. Kudos! P.S. Have you considered teaching journalism lessons to that cavalcade of defectives who operate (and present on) cable news television? I'd happily replace the whole lot of them, the writers, producers, editors, on-air personalities, pretend-fact-checkers, tendentious spinners, weasely talking-head guests, and all, with an identical number of clones of YOU.
I have a feeling that the reason why so many Lutheran churches are located in the upper Midwest and Pennsylvania, is because those where the areas with the highest concentration of German immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries. For the most part, the majority of German immigrants into America, at the time, were Lutheran.
German and Irish ancestry and live in Pennsylvania. Tons of Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches here, but we’ve got just about every denomination, even Eastern Orthodox.
That’s true. My grandfather was Lutheran when he and his parents immigrated to the United States. He met a Catholic woman in Philadelphia. And needless to say, everyone in my family has been Catholic ever since! Lol
Oddly, the country with the largest percentage of the population that's Lutheran isn't the U.S., Germany, or any of the Scandanavian countries. It's Namibia!
I used to work for a company that sold products to churches all over the USA. I legitimately started thinking of the United Methodists as “the McDonalds of churches” because they were so ubiquitous and all had identical branding. At least with the Roman Catholic congregations you had different names-Saint So-and-so, Our Lady of Such-and-such, etc.
One thing I respect about the UMC is that no town is too small. I live in a town of 105 people with a UMC church. A couple miles away in one direction is a town of about 2,000 with one. A few miles away in another direction is a town of about 50 people with a UMC church. As far as I know, every single tiny little town in my county has at least one UMC church with no less than 2 services per week.
here in Indonesia the naming of churches for some major Protestant denominations also work like that. For instance, the Protestant Christian Batak Church (HKBP) would have churches named like "HKBP Jalan Uskup Agung Sugiopranoto" - Archbishop Sugiopranoto Street Protestant Christian Batak Church (it's a real church name, interestingly enough the street is named after a Roman Catholic archbishop who's a national hero) The Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) also uses this practice, leading to some interesting church names such as "GKI Maulana Yusuf" - Maulana Yusuf Street Indonesian Christian Church (the street is named after a Bantenese sultan who's also a national hero) and "GKI Wahid Hasyim" - Wahid Hasyim Street Indonesian Christian Church (the street is named after an Islamic clergy and a renowned national hero)
@@jdcsiahaanInteresting. I, myself an Indonesian have seen churches mostly named by their existing places, respectively. Such as GBI Pasar Baru. Or, some kind of hope that the new soon-to-be church will had impact on the community, like GBI Harapan Indah , or GBI Miracle. I couldn't really show much of an example since i'm mostly drawn to GBI and didn't really exploring much places. For the catholics parishes here also uses similar format like anywhere else, Like Santo/Santa ____, our lady of ______. Sadly there's not much of protestant church named after some saint or close to be potrayed as one, the reason to that mostly because the VAST majority (i would argue over 95%) of Indonesian protestant churches are Charismatic or hold charismatic and evangelical value, even Lutheran churches like HKBP is pretty split on this topic, when they're literally "LUTHERAN" as the name suggest, some congregation of the church is very charismatic. Hence, we don't get many protestant churches named after some holy person.
I have a theory as to why the LCMS is more common in these cities than the ELCA. As a Minnesotan, I notice that in the cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), the ELCA seems to dominate, but in more rural areas the LCMS is more common. I think that this is because of the urban/rural political divide, and the fact that the LCMS is not a conservative breakaway from the ELCA, like the PCA and ACNA, but a well established denomination. I think Lutherans have the biggeset divide between conservative and liberal churches.
Alright, which one of you is the russian spy and when did you show up here!? WAS IT DURING THE COLD WAR YOU GODLESS HEATHEN?!? sorry I lost my composure but real talk that still a cool name even in america lmao.
Another great video. Always on point. 👍🏻. The main thing I appreciate is that you don’t criticize or draw attention to yourself in your videos. You just state the facts and let the audience think for themselves. Other UA-camrs need to learn from this.
It would be interesting to see this kind of video on an international level. For instance seeing the top few denominations in each country by attendance. Maybe do a few videos broken into regions as that would get kind of long. Or maybe just show a graph with the stats, mention trends and point out anything surprising.
Let go!!! Arkansas made the list!!!! Searcy happens to be pretty heavy Church Of Christ since they have a local COC University there. The main SBC Church there is pretty big though for that size of city.
I was about to comment the same thing! My grandparents are COC and live there. And my dad went to Harding! I was so excited to see this city used as an example😍
@@Mulerider4Life you must have been after the "Songs of the Church" era. The hymnal that dominated in the 70s and 80s was called "Songs of the Church;" 728-B was the ubiquitous "Our God, He is Alive." You could count on singing it several times a month.
@@footofjuniper8212 oh gotcha. Nah I never went to Harding. You can probably guess my alumni place though. My twin sister did graduate there and my stepdad with for a semester. Very pretty campus for sure. Cool Basketball Gym as well. Obviously not in agreement exactly with their theology, but have many friends in that denomination.
I've been doing an overview of theology and denominational doctrines, so I've been bouncing around your channel. Pop this video up, and, well what do you know, it's talking about my town! Super cool to see the dispersion of the different denominations but also see our city's church influence brought to light. Perhaps it'd interest you to know that I learned about a few new ones I had no idea about from your video. Crazy how that works... Thanks for your videos - your style is engaging, extremely informative, and has certainly been making for some good conversations.
Within my consolidated city/county in Georgia (pop. around 200K) there are: 4 Catholic Churches (the one I attend has a few thousand congregants) I'd say around 4 or 5 Lutheran churches, probably mostly ELCA but certainly one LCMS At least one Mormon, JW, and Seventh-Day Adventist church A few Pentacostal churches, including a big one with some cool cross tower on the lawn near the street Maybe one Orthodox church, one synagogue, and a mosque; not sure about Hindu or Buddhist places of worship Quite a few Presbyterian churches (mostly PCUSA) Probably around that many AME churches A Unitarian Universalist congregation A few non-denominational churches, plus some that primarily worship in Spanish All the rest are a number (probably hundreds) of Baptist and Methodist churches, though the former certainly outnumbers the latter and probably comprises the majority of Christians overall in the county (we're one of 159 in the state; we just happen to be probably one of the largest by pop outside of the Atlanta area)
As someone who lives near Moscow, I was confused to hear that there wasn’t a Reformed church, but turns out the one I was thinking of just had “reformed” in the name and is in fact not a part of that denomination.
If it has "reformed" in the name, it probably it really is part of the Calvinist tradition, and R to H simply missed it. To a large extent, Calvinist churches are not very hierarchical. Each congregation can decide about affiliation with a larger group. If it decides to switch affiliation, it doesn't lose its building, as will typically happen with episcopal churches (including Methodist).
Sir, I really appreciate your content. I watched your _EO vs. OO_ video the other day and I was wondering whether you could make a video series about the theological differences of the Oriental-Orthodox churches and what theology and practice is unique to each of them. I know that you touched on this a little bit, but I think a deep dive video series would be really cool! Armenian-Apostolic greetings!
EO here with a shout out to my Armenian Apostolic Brother! I saw that video sometime ago also and was very very impressed with the deep dive he did on that. I would like to see another video going a little deeper into the doctrinal differences. But those things do not preclude any cooperation between the EO and the OO. At my EO Church we have a Coptic Parish that uses our Fellowship Hall once a month since they are too small to have own their own building.
@@philmattox8500 Thanks, shout out to you, too :) I still really hope he does make another OO video :D Yeah this happens when a community is too small. Would be better if they had their own building.
The name of a Church is not a minor matter. Mormon is a nickname, always has been, the church, named after its founder, Jesus Christ, is his Church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the way we are in every country, which gives its citizens Religious Freedom, and in every estate of the American Union
LDS teaches that salvation comes after all you can do. If you’ve ever attended a movie, when you could have been praying or serving the poor, you have not done all you can do. Thus, by Smith’s teaching you can’t be saved.
As someone who grew up in Illinois, I was *shocked* at the map of Lutherans! I had no idea they weren't as common everywhere else as they are in IL/WI! I knew there's a lot of German immigration history in thr upper widwest, but I thought they were everywhere else, *too*
Hey, Josh, if you ever remake this, could you please include the Orthodox? Particularly Eastern + Western Rite parishes? Western Rite seems to be up and coming. It'd be interesting to keep track of their growth. Eastern is of course heavily dependent on region, but there are often some in smaller towns like those you focus on here.
I don't think he is going to consider doing that for a long time since they are rare in America and also because it's a hard subject to cover, but who knows...
It would be nice (and polite) to call us Latter-day Saints. There really isn't such a thing as the "Mormon" Church. We are disciples of Jesus Christ, not Mormon.
While I understand your point, the Mormon Style Guide does not apply to those that are not part of that "denomination", therefore we call it the more (informal) name - Mormon Church.
I think “LDS” or “Latter-day Saints” is fine; the appellation “Saints” is still a nod to what church members consider to be the sanctifying power of Jesus Christ. The term “Mormon” as applied to church members was, of course, earliest used primarily by detractors of the faith who got their kicks and giggles by robbing, beating, raping, killing, and otherwise generally terrorizing the faith’s adherents. Ironically, many of those folks would then walk into nominally Christian churches on Sunday to recite theologically masturbatory canards about their own salvation. If those are the spiritual footsteps in which modern self-proclaimed “Christians” wish to follow, there’s not a darned thing the LDS people can do to stop them. Thus we can all content ourselves by knowing that the fair name of Jesus, savior of impenitent rapists and robbers and murderers and thieves and terrorists, won’t be polluted by association with (gasp!) *heretics*.
@@BillyEilish The problem with that is that it leads people to jump to the erroneous conclusion that the central figure of the Church is "Mormon" rather than Jesus Christ. And while Mormon was an honorable man and a true prophet (among many), the appellation "Mormon Church" did not arise out of a mere desire for "informality." Rather, it was part of a deliberate campaign of smears perpetrated against the Church in the 1830s who, for one reason or another, felt threatened by the success of the Church. The same kind of attacks were leveled against the primitive Church in the first three centuries. "They do not follow the orthodox religion" quickly moved to "they are weird" and ultimately to "they are dangerous." The decrees of the Emperor Diocletian were not so very different from the decree of Missouri's Gov. Bogg: "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated, or driven from the state." (Oct. 27, 1838)
(Church of Christ kid entires chat) Searcy has a major Church of Christ university 🙃 that’s why there are 8 there. Honestly, I would have guessed more.
I'm guessing one of them is where most of the Harding students go. There are also bound to be several more congregations nearby in the surrounding smaller towns.
Actually in Arkansas, membership for the COC is significant in areas north of Interstates 30/40, and most towns/cities have congregations, some are relatively large.
I appreciate this. Speaking of my own denomination, the AME Church (and likely all Black denominations). The tendency of seeing a Black Church in any town/city is based on Black population. And this population is usually based on two factors: slavery and the Great Migration.
Years ago, I attended a predominantly black and Hispanic Pentecostal church. Every now and then there would a white couple or a single white person that attended. For a short while there was a white gentleman with a beard but he had short hair. During the Holiday season, the leadership decided to do a Christmas play, and guess who they approached to play the roll of Jesus. I remember watching the rehearsals and feeling something is awkwardly not right about this.
What do the AME believe? All these denominations really confuse me. I just recently looked into Pentecostals and “Christian” Mormons, but they seem extremely creepy to me
This video is really well done and this was a fun comparison! I live rather close to Moscow, and it's interesting to note that it's pretty diverse with its religious congregations because it's also the home of the University of Idaho. Having the college students come in every fall almost doubles the population, resulting in more congregants. I'm curious if there is any other context like that for the other five towns, it would be interesting to think how it could affect their church population.
@@EvelynElaineSmith Probably closer to 70%. Pocatello, as a railroad hub, has traditionally had a higher non-LDS proportion of its population than any other part of eastern Idaho. Idaho Falls is also far from 95% due to employment at the Idaho National Laboratory. My cousin pastors a Baptist Church there.
Saint Katherine Antiochian Orthodox Mission in Pullman, Wa. / Moscow, Idaho. Saint John of Maramures Romanian Orthodox Church in Hazelton, Pa. No Orthodox Church in Searcy but two in Little Rock: Holy Trinity and Seeker of the Lost. No Orthodox Church in Brookings, closest is in Rapid City: Saint John the Theologian. No Orthodox Church in Brawley, California.
@@CharlesSeraphDrums Whoa there… Do you realize how far away Rapid City is from Brookings? Actually, I think there’s an Orthodox parish nearby in Sioux Falls. At least, there was a year or so ago near Augustana University. Otherwise, it’s probably faster to go to Minneapolis than across the state to Rapid City. :)
@@zarnoffa I'll take your word for it jajaja Google Maps wasn't really helping (not American nor have I ever visited that part of the States). Also, I was only looking at canonical churches, there may be a couple GOC missions around there that would not be listed.
This was very interesting and informative. I live in Little Rock, not far from Searcy. I'm originally from California, but the Los Angeles area, quite a ways northwest from Brawley (but I've been to Brawley, and everyone was super friendly). My parents live in Idaho. My husband and I used to live in South Dakota. I have not been to Hazleton, PA or Key West, FL, but my husband and I are planning to visit Key West soon.
There are churches EVERYWHERE where I live. There's a catholic church in my neighborhood. Down the street is a Lutheran one, and down the street from that is a Baptist one.
Years ago I did a lot of research on a different but related topic: which Christian Hymn-tunes are the most widespread in the USA? I had to determine which denominations used which Hymnals, then see what Hymn-tunes were in each. (Not the texts, the tunes. The same Hymn-tune might be found with dozens of different texts.) The easy denominations to study were ones with a single officially approved Hymnal like the LDS, United Methodist, Episcopal, etc. Extremely messy was the Catholic church; there are dozens of different Catholic Hymnals published by a number of competing publishing firms, who are free to sell their books to as many parishes as they can. And completely unmeasurable are the modern nondenominational "media Churches" who put the words up on giant TV screens and have made the concept of Hymnal meaningless.
All I'm looking for is which denomination is the Chick-fil-A of our Christian faith. High quality, genuine love, good faithful practice, and blessed lol
I have to disagree with your comparison of churches being like McDonalds I would say most churchs are like Burger King. ´ Have it your way as their slogan.´ that is why there are so many franchises.
I enjoy your insights. There are so many things going on in the church today. Covid has not destroyed our churches, but it may have revealed the fact that the church has been teetering on its heels and some have fallen and will not or cannot get up. I will continue to look for additional postings.
Where I live (Sanpete County, UT, population 30,000) there are three Baptist Churches (none SBC), one non-denominational evangelical, two Presbyterian churches, two small Catholic missions, one Calvary Chapel mission (ours) and 24 Mormon congregations. Probably the last figure isn't surprising.
@@ReadyToHarvest The Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant (Heritage Baptist Church) is Independent Baptist. What once was First Southern is now a non-denominational plant by Ephraim Church of the Bible, the non-denominational evangelical church I mentioned in my first comment. The church plant's pastor is Adam Swapp, who I know. In fact, since there are so few pastors of non-Mormon churches here, we all pretty well know each other.
@@davemitchell116 Interesting! I find it strange that they kept the website with the southern Baptist name in it. And they are still listed on the SBC website too. churches.sbc.net/church/first-southern-baptist-3/
It’s really amazing to see all of this in print. From a Biblical view, I want to know the truth. I don’t just want to pick out something that suits me. It would be like making my own God. I want to find what all Jesus taught. What church goes back that far. These other churches all came about after the 1500s . I do remember He chose 12 apostles and said He would be with them until the end of time and the gates of hell would not knock down His church. So which church was His? Huh
What about international dominance? Surely, the Seventh-day Adventist Church would rank near the top. They are far more numerous abroad than within the US.
I have watched a bunch of your videos, and I completely appreciate your neutrality. Also, it seems that you are getting younger as time goes on...what's your secret?
It’s interesting to point out that Searcy has the largest church of Christ university in the country (Harding University). This may slightly skew the results.
What I like is that when saying what a faith group teaches you go to them for your data. As a Latin Rite Catholic I have come across may protestants, mostly Babtist, that tried to tell me what The Catholic Church teaches. All were incorrect.
I enjoyed your video but I am curious why do you use the slang name for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yes its a long name but LDS Church is accepted and the term Mormon although is not offensive, its technically not correct.
@@brynnkohler4084 seriously? I don't tell you what to call yourself. How can you tell a successful and established religion what to call themselves. Jehovahs witnesses for example... did everyone in that religion actually witness jehovah. Sorry you feel so strongly in a negative way over a church's given name. But honestly I feel there are bigger fish to fry.
@@katybay6765 I am Eastern Orthodox. As you would suspect from the name we have very significant theological differences. However one thing we have in common is that apparently we have a fondness for "good manners". So whatever theological differences we may have does not excuse bad manners on my part. Your point about using the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints proper name whenever referencing that community is well taken.
Searcy, Arkansas is very heavily dominated by the non-denominational Church of Christ. Harding University is aligned with the CoC and is a respected educational institution. Also, Searcy is very conservative politically which accounts for so many evangelical churches (Southern Baptist and Assemblies of God to name a couple).
Very nice study, with good parameters, and I liked your use of the fast-food comparisons. Well done! Again as in the past, informative and instructive.
If you mean the number of denominations, I agree. If you mean the number of parishes and church buildings and organizations with Christians in them, I'm bemused as to why you are watching this.
Some people would prefer that there be only one church building - or no more than one for each denomination - in each town but there are advantages to congregations with more than 150 members and there are advantages to congregations with no more than about 150 members. If you are concerned that there are so many different ostensibly Christian organizations (aka denominations), please consider this. The Lord has called some people to emphasize one or more truths about himself and how he deals with the human race. He has called other people to emphasize other truths about himself. Examples include the Lutherans and baptists who emphasize justification, methodists and holiness denominations who emphasize sanctification and adventists who emphasize glorification. We could wish that all denominations would emphasize all three of those things but it would be unrealistic to hope that all denominations would emphasize all three things “equally”.
This inspired me to research the countries I’m from and that my parents are from… NEW ZEALAND Population: 5.084 million (2020) Roman Catholic ✅ Baptist ✅ Pentecostal ✅ Lutheran ✅ Presbyterian/Reformed ✅ Methodist/Holiness ✅ Anglican/Episcopal ✅ Church of Christ ✅ Seventh-Day Adventist ✅ Jehovah's Witness ✅ Mormon ✅ (WESTERN) SAMOA Population: 198,410 (2020) Roman Catholic ✅ Baptist ✅ Pentecostal ✅ Lutheran ❌ Presbyterian/Reformed (Congregational) ✅ Methodist/Holiness ✅ Anglican/Episcopal ✅ Church of Christ ❌ Seventh-Day Adventist ✅ Jehovah's Witness ✅ Mormon ✅ TOKELAU Population: 1,357 (2020) Roman Catholic ✅ Baptist ❌ Pentecostal ✅ Lutheran ❌ Presbyterian/Reformed (Congregational) ✅ Methodist/Holiness ❌ Anglican/Episcopal ❌ Church of Christ ❌ Seventh-Day Adventist ✅ Jehovah's Witness ❌ Mormon ❌ Only stuck to the denomination’s you mentioned 🤓
Racine WI is drowning in Lutheran Churches mostly from how we used to be a huge center of Danish culture, so much so the Queen herself had visited back in the 70s. But I was raised Catholic and for a reasons know we had at least 6 but I only attended 2. What's interesting is I remember reading Cracked article about outdated Catholic stereotypes media saying that in the US most Catholic churches don't still like cathedrals built in the middle ages. When I must be lucky then because both I grew up in looked pretty old fashioned. I also know we had exactly two Independent Baptist Churches, I'd attended both of them a long time ago, and some other varying types of Baptist Churches, I think we have a Greek Orthodox Church and a Methodist Church. And one Charismatic group who had their meetings in a random room at the local hospital.
I've heard it said that Billy Graham once said that "you go anywhere in the world and you'll find two things: Coca-cola and the Assemblies of God!" I've been across the US and in some small, small places in the world, and it's true! Middle of nowhere, and there's a coke machine and an A/G church. Fun video man.
So I notice in your videos that you generally tend to avoid discussing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon), outside of a brief mention. I was simply wondering if you were planning a video where you compare their beliefs to other denominations, or something similar where they get discussed in more detail alongside these other denominations?
Mormons aren't worth mentioning because first of all they aren't christian and second of all ALL of their doctrine comes from one man, Joseph Smith. One thing Smith is famous for is his idea that everyone that lives a good life, goes frequently to the very secretive Mormon temple ceremony and the really big one, gives ten percent of his gross, that's gross not net, to the church. If he does all of that he becomes a God and gets his own planet. If you think I am wrong, if you know a Mormon by chance ask them
I lived in Searcy, AR for a while. I wonder if the speaker knew it's a hub for a religious college "Harding University", which is likely why it has so many of these churches.
Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD RESTED on the First day of creation?? Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD BLESSED the First day of the week? Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD SANCTIFIED ( made holy) the First day of the week? Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD NAMED the First day of the week? Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD DECLARE the First day of the week as HIS Holy Day? ---Catholics claim Sunday is the day of worship, a holy day.PROVE IT!!!!
What is the 2nd biggest Christian denomination in Turkey? #1 is Catholic # FOURSQUARE!!!! Bet you'd NEVER guessed that! 😁 (They a knee deep in earthquake recovery.)
I realize that this is a cursory overview, but the picture would be a bit different if you looked at 20 or so towns across the country with populations under 1,000. As someone raised in rural America, that's something I'd like to see. Maybe I'll do it myself.
I am an Australian Christian living on the other side of the world. Recently, recovering after an operation, I was insomniac one evening and couldn't sleep at all so I turned on the television. I stumbled on the American ''God TV'' on the hospital's cable TV. My first time watching anything like this. I was immediately repelled by the lunacy in front of me, but I decided to watch it throughout the evening to witness just how lunatic, how absurd the Pentecostal/ Charismatic entertainers errr ministers/ pastors had become. There was Benny un-HINN-ged and an equal loony, Kenneth Copeland. Then, a crazy woman named Joyce Meyers, whose finest, godly virtue was the size of her car-tire sized earrings. And more; many more This is American Christianity, populated by hucksters and charlatans and supported by the ignorant.
Most Denominations are relatively new on the scenes. Protestants are 500 years old. The Roman Catholic Church is 1,600 years old. The Catholics went full Mohammad for an eon. Protestantism is grassroots. Catholicism is on the decline from 87% in the 1980’s to 47% in 2020. Islam is on the rise, mainly due to their by the sword methods and doing what the Catholics did for an eon in their territories suppressing other beliefs, often violently. So growth for other religions will be stifled and grow much slower in those countries. Where as in countries that do not yet allow Islam to just do their Sharia thing, they’re also growing due to the rise in mass immigration into those countries, and those countries not doing anything about it whatsoever. Protestantism is growing rapidly in Africa and Latin American countries. However, I’m sure in those numbers there are heretical groups like “Charismaticism” being spread rapidly, which is very predatory on poor populations, like the Catholic church was for 1,000 years. But without the violence. Either way, Christians need to get it together and spread the Gospel more. However, the book of Revelation says it will get worse and not better before the coming of our Lord. So either way, the outcome is still the same. Amen!
“After all, the PCA with their 1927 churches hasn’t reached Panda Express levels.” 😂 honestly, funniest quote in a while!
I thought, "Man I love Panda Express".
It's really the model that's hurting the PCA's growth. While you can just grab and go at Panda Express, you have to order ahead of time at PCA (Panda Call Ahead).
Panda Express at a PCA church? Not gonna happen, but it would be delicious.
"and this is my flesh, which we make our new covenant"
"That's a fortune cookie Pastor"
Sanctified orange chicken... blessed cream cheese wontons
Me, a Catholic: oh yeah we're everywhere
I live in Thailand, and the woman that cleans our house comes from a small village in the hills of Thailand. There is no cell phone reception. There is only solar electricity. You need 4-wheel drive to make it on the dirt road into town. That village has a Catholic Church. It does not have a Buddhist temple or Protestant church.
The goal was to make it so everyone has a home parish nearby, and needless to say I think we succeeded
Catholicism is the largest single church in Canada, US, Australia and NZ. Technically Catholic countries.
The one and only Apostolic Church baby! God bless the other protestant churches though, I admire their love for the Bible.
@Raymond Anderson haven’t heard that one before
Dude, your work is EXCELLENT. I really appreciate your approach: No invective, no snark, no grandstanding. No attempt to sacrifice accuracy to amp-up the entertainment value. Just an arms-length, calm, objective, charitable, and easily-understood presentation of the data. Kudos!
P.S. Have you considered teaching journalism lessons to that cavalcade of defectives who operate (and present on) cable news television? I'd happily replace the whole lot of them, the writers, producers, editors, on-air personalities, pretend-fact-checkers, tendentious spinners, weasely talking-head guests, and all, with an identical number of clones of YOU.
Awesome comment
I mean having clones is immoral but other than that you're right.
I have a feeling that the reason why so many Lutheran churches are located in the upper Midwest and Pennsylvania, is because those where the areas with the highest concentration of German immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries. For the most part, the majority of German immigrants into America, at the time, were Lutheran.
Not just German but Scandinavian as well, Minnesota has more Norwegians anywhere in the world outside of Norway
A lot of German heritage in Nebraska = Lutheran churches.
German and Irish ancestry and live in Pennsylvania. Tons of Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches here, but we’ve got just about every denomination, even Eastern Orthodox.
That’s true. My grandfather was Lutheran when he and his parents immigrated to the United States. He met a Catholic woman in Philadelphia. And needless to say, everyone in my family has been Catholic ever since! Lol
@@m4641 Nebraska is a very catholic state/ contrast it with Kansas for example. Omaha has an archbishop
I’m a life long Catholic and was recently surprised that our church is the majority church in Bangladesh when we were visited by a bishop from there
Theres actually a lot of Catholics in the subcontinent due to trade with the Portuguese empire
Oddly, the country with the largest percentage of the population that's Lutheran isn't the U.S., Germany, or any of the Scandanavian countries. It's Namibia!
@@RobertEWaters I would assume that’s because of German colonisation.
What are you talking about Bangladesh is predominately Sunni Muslim.
@@ComradeHellas no I just mean of the different Christian sects. That’s all.
I used to work for a company that sold products to churches all over the USA. I legitimately started thinking of the United Methodists as “the McDonalds of churches” because they were so ubiquitous and all had identical branding. At least with the Roman Catholic congregations you had different names-Saint So-and-so, Our Lady of Such-and-such, etc.
One thing I respect about the UMC is that no town is too small. I live in a town of 105 people with a UMC church. A couple miles away in one direction is a town of about 2,000 with one. A few miles away in another direction is a town of about 50 people with a UMC church. As far as I know, every single tiny little town in my county has at least one UMC church with no less than 2 services per week.
here in Indonesia the naming of churches for some major Protestant denominations also work like that.
For instance, the Protestant Christian Batak Church (HKBP) would have churches named like "HKBP Jalan Uskup Agung Sugiopranoto" - Archbishop Sugiopranoto Street Protestant Christian Batak Church (it's a real church name, interestingly enough the street is named after a Roman Catholic archbishop who's a national hero)
The Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) also uses this practice, leading to some interesting church names such as "GKI Maulana Yusuf" - Maulana Yusuf Street Indonesian Christian Church (the street is named after a Bantenese sultan who's also a national hero) and "GKI Wahid Hasyim" - Wahid Hasyim Street Indonesian Christian Church (the street is named after an Islamic clergy and a renowned national hero)
@@jdcsiahaanInteresting. I, myself an Indonesian have seen churches mostly named by their existing places, respectively. Such as GBI Pasar Baru. Or, some kind of hope that the new soon-to-be church will had impact on the community, like GBI Harapan Indah , or GBI Miracle. I couldn't really show much of an example since i'm mostly drawn to GBI and didn't really exploring much places. For the catholics parishes here also uses similar format like anywhere else, Like Santo/Santa ____, our lady of ______. Sadly there's not much of protestant church named after some saint or close to be potrayed as one, the reason to that mostly because the VAST majority (i would argue over 95%) of Indonesian protestant churches are Charismatic or hold charismatic and evangelical value, even Lutheran churches like HKBP is pretty split on this topic, when they're literally "LUTHERAN" as the name suggest, some congregation of the church is very charismatic. Hence, we don't get many protestant churches named after some holy person.
I have a theory as to why the LCMS is more common in these cities than the ELCA. As a Minnesotan, I notice that in the cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), the ELCA seems to dominate, but in more rural areas the LCMS is more common. I think that this is because of the urban/rural political divide, and the fact that the LCMS is not a conservative breakaway from the ELCA, like the PCA and ACNA, but a well established denomination. I think Lutherans have the biggeset divide between conservative and liberal churches.
This was super interesting. Comparing it to fast food locations was clever
Me: oh that would be cool if my hometown was on the list.
RtH: Moscow, Idaho
Me:... alrighty then
Alright, which one of you is the russian spy and when did you show up here!? WAS IT DURING THE COLD WAR YOU GODLESS HEATHEN?!?
sorry I lost my composure but real talk that still a cool name even in america lmao.
Hears Moscow Idaho......Douglas Wilson must have pulled strings
Hello neighbor! It’s good to see some Palouse representation, even if it’s not Pullman.
I am a member of a CREC church. If the CREC had a 'Vatican' it would be in Moscow, ID for us.
My husband and I were in Moscow this weekend at the Anglican Church! From Post Falls. 😊
Another great video. Always on point. 👍🏻. The main thing I appreciate is that you don’t criticize or draw attention to yourself in your videos. You just state the facts and let the audience think for themselves. Other UA-camrs need to learn from this.
Thanks Mark!
Hazleton resident here and can confirm there is a majorly strong Catholic presence in Eastern Pennsylvania. Love the video and keep up the great work!
It would be interesting to see this kind of video on an international level. For instance seeing the top few denominations in each country by attendance. Maybe do a few videos broken into regions as that would get kind of long. Or maybe just show a graph with the stats, mention trends and point out anything surprising.
Let go!!! Arkansas made the list!!!! Searcy happens to be pretty heavy Church Of Christ since they have a local COC University there. The main SBC Church there is pretty big though for that size of city.
I was about to comment the same thing! My grandparents are COC and live there. And my dad went to Harding! I was so excited to see this city used as an example😍
728-B in the house!
@@footofjuniper8212 what's that?
@@Mulerider4Life you must have been after the "Songs of the Church" era. The hymnal that dominated in the 70s and 80s was called "Songs of the Church;" 728-B was the ubiquitous "Our God, He is Alive." You could count on singing it several times a month.
@@footofjuniper8212 oh gotcha. Nah I never went to Harding. You can probably guess my alumni place though. My twin sister did graduate there and my stepdad with for a semester. Very pretty campus for sure. Cool Basketball Gym as well. Obviously not in agreement exactly with their theology, but have many friends in that denomination.
I've been doing an overview of theology and denominational doctrines, so I've been bouncing around your channel. Pop this video up, and, well what do you know, it's talking about my town! Super cool to see the dispersion of the different denominations but also see our city's church influence brought to light. Perhaps it'd interest you to know that I learned about a few new ones I had no idea about from your video. Crazy how that works... Thanks for your videos - your style is engaging, extremely informative, and has certainly been making for some good conversations.
Thank you Tom! So glad to hear that it's been helpful.
Christ is the ONLY WAY to heaven.
Within my consolidated city/county in Georgia (pop. around 200K) there are:
4 Catholic Churches (the one I attend has a few thousand congregants)
I'd say around 4 or 5 Lutheran churches, probably mostly ELCA but certainly one LCMS
At least one Mormon, JW, and Seventh-Day Adventist church
A few Pentacostal churches, including a big one with some cool cross tower on the lawn near the street
Maybe one Orthodox church, one synagogue, and a mosque; not sure about Hindu or Buddhist places of worship
Quite a few Presbyterian churches (mostly PCUSA)
Probably around that many AME churches
A Unitarian Universalist congregation
A few non-denominational churches, plus some that primarily worship in Spanish
All the rest are a number (probably hundreds) of Baptist and Methodist churches, though the former certainly outnumbers the latter and probably comprises the majority of Christians overall in the county (we're one of 159 in the state; we just happen to be probably one of the largest by pop outside of the Atlanta area)
A big reason for the large CoC presence in Searcy AR. is Harding University. A CoC based university 😊
Any SDAs watching this video?
Right here!
@@Bunfire123 that's great 🙌
Yep!
Yo!
The fact that MacDonalds, Pizza Hut and Subway combined can't even compete with Southern Baptists is quite hilarious.
As someone who lives near Moscow, I was confused to hear that there wasn’t a Reformed church, but turns out the one I was thinking of just had “reformed” in the name and is in fact not a part of that denomination.
If it has "reformed" in the name, it probably it really is part of the Calvinist tradition, and R to H simply missed it. To a large extent, Calvinist churches are not very hierarchical. Each congregation can decide about affiliation with a larger group. If it decides to switch affiliation, it doesn't lose its building, as will typically happen with episcopal churches (including Methodist).
Sir, I really appreciate your content. I watched your _EO vs. OO_ video the other day and I was wondering whether you could make a video series about the theological differences of the Oriental-Orthodox churches and what theology and practice is unique to each of them. I know that you touched on this a little bit, but I think a deep dive video series would be really cool!
Armenian-Apostolic greetings!
EO here with a shout out to my Armenian Apostolic Brother! I saw that video sometime ago also and was very very impressed with the deep dive he did on that. I would like to see another video going a little deeper into the doctrinal differences. But those things do not preclude any cooperation between the EO and the OO. At my EO Church we have a Coptic Parish that uses our Fellowship Hall once a month since they are too small to have own their own building.
I know an Eritrean Orthodox man who used to serve as an altar boy in a Greek Orthodox church for years until his own community had a priest.
@@philmattox8500 Thanks, shout out to you, too :)
I still really hope he does make another OO video :D
Yeah this happens when a community is too small. Would be better if they had their own building.
The name of a Church is not a minor matter. Mormon is a nickname, always has been, the church, named after its founder, Jesus Christ, is his Church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By the way we are in every country, which gives its citizens Religious Freedom, and in every estate of the American Union
LDS teaches that salvation comes after all you can do. If you’ve ever attended a movie, when you could have been praying or serving the poor, you have not done all you can do. Thus, by Smith’s teaching you can’t be saved.
These videos are so good! Very scholarly stuff I love it!
Catholicism is the McDonalds of Christianity, not just US, far and away the broadest reach globally.
As someone who grew up in Illinois, I was *shocked* at the map of Lutherans! I had no idea they weren't as common everywhere else as they are in IL/WI!
I knew there's a lot of German immigration history in thr upper widwest, but I thought they were everywhere else, *too*
Hey, Josh, if you ever remake this, could you please include the Orthodox? Particularly Eastern + Western Rite parishes? Western Rite seems to be up and coming. It'd be interesting to keep track of their growth. Eastern is of course heavily dependent on region, but there are often some in smaller towns like those you focus on here.
They were included, per se, but they just were not big enough to be counted. Only denomination families that were in 5 or 6 cities were mentioned.
In Utah, Mormon churches outnumber Starbucks.
And for good reason.
Mormons probably don't patronize Starbucks
@@letitiajeavons6333Heck yeah
one would think
The ELCA is plummeting in members and congregations are folding or merging.
Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to Heaven.
Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints here. I can concur with my Catholic friend - oh yeah we’re everywhere :)
Would you consider doing another Eastern Orthodox comparison?
If you’re considering Eastern Orthodoxy, read the Paraklesis.
@@zarnoffa I’m already Eastern Orthodox
I don't think he is going to consider doing that for a long time since they are rare in America and also because it's a hard subject to cover, but who knows...
It would be best to include the Oriental Orthodox too.
@@Ggdivhjkjl indubitably
In the Southeast, we have Krystal instead of White Castle. :-)
It would be nice (and polite) to call us Latter-day Saints. There really isn't such a thing as the "Mormon" Church. We are disciples of Jesus Christ, not Mormon.
While I understand your point, the Mormon Style Guide does not apply to those that are not part of that "denomination", therefore we call it the more (informal) name - Mormon Church.
I think “LDS” or “Latter-day Saints” is fine; the appellation “Saints” is still a nod to what church members consider to be the sanctifying power of Jesus Christ.
The term “Mormon” as applied to church members was, of course, earliest used primarily by detractors of the faith who got their kicks and giggles by robbing, beating, raping, killing, and otherwise generally terrorizing the faith’s adherents. Ironically, many of those folks would then walk into nominally Christian churches on Sunday to recite theologically masturbatory canards about their own salvation.
If those are the spiritual footsteps in which modern self-proclaimed “Christians” wish to follow, there’s not a darned thing the LDS people can do to stop them. Thus we can all content ourselves by knowing that the fair name of Jesus, savior of impenitent rapists and robbers and murderers and thieves and terrorists, won’t be polluted by association with (gasp!) *heretics*.
@@BillyEilish The problem with that is that it leads people to jump to the erroneous conclusion that the central figure of the Church is "Mormon" rather than Jesus Christ. And while Mormon was an honorable man and a true prophet (among many), the appellation "Mormon Church" did not arise out of a mere desire for "informality."
Rather, it was part of a deliberate campaign of smears perpetrated against the Church in the 1830s who, for one reason or another, felt threatened by the success of the Church. The same kind of attacks were leveled against the primitive Church in the first three centuries. "They do not follow the orthodox religion" quickly moved to "they are weird" and ultimately to "they are dangerous."
The decrees of the Emperor Diocletian were not so very different from the decree of Missouri's Gov. Bogg: "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated, or driven from the state." (Oct. 27, 1838)
(Church of Christ kid entires chat)
Searcy has a major Church of Christ university 🙃 that’s why there are 8 there. Honestly, I would have guessed more.
I'm guessing one of them is where most of the Harding students go. There are also bound to be several more congregations nearby in the surrounding smaller towns.
Actually in Arkansas, membership for the COC is significant in areas north of Interstates 30/40, and most towns/cities have congregations, some are relatively large.
I appreciate this. Speaking of my own denomination, the AME Church (and likely all Black denominations). The tendency of seeing a Black Church in any town/city is based on Black population. And this population is usually based on two factors: slavery and the Great Migration.
Years ago, I attended a predominantly black and Hispanic Pentecostal church. Every now and then there would a white couple or a single white person that attended. For a short while there was a white gentleman with a beard but he had short hair. During the Holiday season, the leadership decided to do a Christmas play, and guess who they approached to play the roll of Jesus. I remember watching the rehearsals and feeling something is awkwardly not right about this.
I’m from Charlotte, NC, and my wife’s family is from South Dakota. Every time we visit, I think, “It’s just white people as far as the eye can see.”
@@wanbaclone the Holy Land of America.
@@lloydtucker5647 jesus was white cope and seethe
What do the AME believe? All these denominations really confuse me. I just recently looked into Pentecostals and “Christian” Mormons, but they seem extremely creepy to me
I can tell you Searcy AR is a bit skewed for Church of Christ since there is also a CoC affiliated university in the town, Harding University.
Your channel is remarkable. The term "church shopping" is a real thing.
Catholic Church end of discussion. That's world wide!
This video is really well done and this was a fun comparison! I live rather close to Moscow, and it's interesting to note that it's pretty diverse with its religious congregations because it's also the home of the University of Idaho. Having the college students come in every fall almost doubles the population, resulting in more congregants. I'm curious if there is any other context like that for the other five towns, it would be interesting to think how it could affect their church population.
Then again, Pocatello, the home of Idaho State, is 95 percent Latter-Day Saint (Mormon).
Searcy, Arkansas is home to Harding University, closely connected with churches of Christ.
@@EvelynElaineSmith Probably closer to 70%. Pocatello, as a railroad hub, has traditionally had a higher non-LDS proportion of its population than any other part of eastern Idaho. Idaho Falls is also far from 95% due to employment at the Idaho National Laboratory. My cousin pastors a Baptist Church there.
Would like to see something similar to this but including data from outside of the US 😃 I really appreciate how well this video was made and presented
Im suprised you didn't mention Louisiana's Catholic mega base
Everyone's triggered about no orthodox even though they make up an extremely tiny percentage in the USA
Not triggered, just wondering if we are represented in any of those.
Saint Katherine Antiochian Orthodox Mission in Pullman, Wa. / Moscow, Idaho.
Saint John of Maramures Romanian Orthodox Church in Hazelton, Pa.
No Orthodox Church in Searcy but two in Little Rock: Holy Trinity and Seeker of the Lost.
No Orthodox Church in Brookings, closest is in Rapid City: Saint John the Theologian.
No Orthodox Church in Brawley, California.
That's the reason. Only one church in one city means no mention. (Pullman, WA doesn't count)
@@CharlesSeraphDrums
Whoa there… Do you realize how far away Rapid City is from Brookings? Actually, I think there’s an Orthodox parish nearby in Sioux Falls. At least, there was a year or so ago near Augustana University. Otherwise, it’s probably faster to go to Minneapolis than across the state to Rapid City. :)
@@zarnoffa I'll take your word for it jajaja Google Maps wasn't really helping (not American nor have I ever visited that part of the States). Also, I was only looking at canonical churches, there may be a couple GOC missions around there that would not be listed.
This was very interesting and informative. I live in Little Rock, not far from Searcy. I'm originally from California, but the Los Angeles area, quite a ways northwest from Brawley (but I've been to Brawley, and everyone was super friendly). My parents live in Idaho. My husband and I used to live in South Dakota. I have not been to Hazleton, PA or Key West, FL, but my husband and I are planning to visit Key West soon.
There are churches EVERYWHERE where I live. There's a catholic church in my neighborhood. Down the street is a Lutheran one, and down the street from that is a Baptist one.
There's also a Mormon, Episcopal, and Methodist church around. Funnily enough, the Methodist Church is right next to a Mason lodge.
Could you do a video about Which churches get the most Converts or have lost attendance?
Don't worry there are plenty of false prophets to go around.
And most of them read the Bible alone!
Yes, and some of the false prophets are ancient, but accumulated all kinds of novel doctrines and blasphemous practices along the way.
Would it be possible for you to study Messianic Jews (culturally and usually ethnically Jewish Christians)? I'd love to know more about them :)
Good news. It is my next video.
@@ReadyToHarvest WOOOO!!!!
Years ago I did a lot of research on a different but related topic: which Christian Hymn-tunes are the most widespread in the USA? I had to determine which denominations used which Hymnals, then see what Hymn-tunes were in each. (Not the texts, the tunes. The same Hymn-tune might be found with dozens of different texts.) The easy denominations to study were ones with a single officially approved Hymnal like the LDS, United Methodist, Episcopal, etc. Extremely messy was the Catholic church; there are dozens of different Catholic Hymnals published by a number of competing publishing firms, who are free to sell their books to as many parishes as they can. And completely unmeasurable are the modern nondenominational "media Churches" who put the words up on giant TV screens and have made the concept of Hymnal meaningless.
All I'm looking for is which denomination is the Chick-fil-A of our Christian faith. High quality, genuine love, good faithful practice, and blessed lol
And closed on Sundays? 🤭
Since Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays, perhaps they're the SDA of fast food franchises? 🤔
And the shed blood machine is _not_ broken!
@@Perririri Whether meant that way or your comment in very bad taste.
@@thelasthandbook6704😂😅
I have to disagree with your comparison of churches being like McDonalds I would say most churchs are like Burger King. ´ Have it your way as their slogan.´ that is why there are so many franchises.
I enjoy your insights. There are so many things going on in the church today. Covid has not destroyed our churches, but it may have revealed the fact that the church has been teetering on its heels and some have fallen and will not or cannot get up. I will continue to look for additional postings.
Thanks for including Mormons on the list :) We are Christian too ;-)
Where I live (Sanpete County, UT, population 30,000) there are three Baptist Churches (none SBC), one non-denominational evangelical, two Presbyterian churches, two small Catholic missions, one Calvary Chapel mission (ours) and 24 Mormon congregations. Probably the last figure isn't surprising.
Thanks for sharing. Utah has some massively different demographics than most of the US. There is a SBC church in Mt Pleasant www.firstsouthernbc.com/
@@ReadyToHarvest The Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant (Heritage Baptist Church) is Independent Baptist. What once was First Southern is now a non-denominational plant by Ephraim Church of the Bible, the non-denominational evangelical church I mentioned in my first comment. The church plant's pastor is Adam Swapp, who I know. In fact, since there are so few pastors of non-Mormon churches here, we all pretty well know each other.
@@davemitchell116 Interesting! I find it strange that they kept the website with the southern Baptist name in it. And they are still listed on the SBC website too. churches.sbc.net/church/first-southern-baptist-3/
This makes me curious about education and hospitals. How about a similar video on these?
Fantastic video, I really enjoyed watching and thank you for making it.
It’s really amazing to see all of this in print. From a Biblical view, I want to know the truth. I don’t just want to pick out something that suits me. It would be like making my own God. I want to find what all Jesus taught. What church goes back that far. These other churches all came about after the 1500s . I do remember He chose 12 apostles and said He would be with them until the end of time and the gates of hell would not knock down His church. So which church was His? Huh
What about international dominance? Surely, the Seventh-day Adventist Church would rank near the top. They are far more numerous abroad than within the US.
I have watched a bunch of your videos, and I completely appreciate your neutrality. Also, it seems that you are getting younger as time goes on...what's your secret?
Better lighting
It’s interesting to point out that Searcy has the largest church of Christ university in the country (Harding University). This may slightly skew the results.
I'd love to see a run down of New England. It's a spiritual desert.
There’s something so interesting about comparing churches to fast food locations
Evangelical Lutherans and Episcopal USA are in full communion so if you're EL or EUSA and you don't have one in your city, you can go to the other.
What I like is that when saying what a faith group teaches you go to them for your data. As a Latin Rite Catholic I have come across may protestants, mostly Babtist, that tried to tell me what The Catholic Church teaches. All were incorrect.
I enjoyed your video but I am curious why do you use the slang name for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yes its a long name but LDS Church is accepted and the term Mormon although is not offensive, its technically not correct.
It's an offensive name -- as LDS is not a Christian sect, to use the phrase "latter day saints" is a mockery and an affront to Christianity.
@@brynnkohler4084 seriously? I don't tell you what to call yourself. How can you tell a successful and established religion what to call themselves. Jehovahs witnesses for example... did everyone in that religion actually witness jehovah. Sorry you feel so strongly in a negative way over a church's given name. But honestly I feel there are bigger fish to fry.
@@katybay6765 I am Eastern Orthodox. As you would suspect from the name we have very significant theological differences. However one thing we have in common is that apparently we have a fondness for "good manners". So whatever theological differences we may have does not excuse bad manners on my part. Your point about using the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints proper name whenever referencing that community is well taken.
@@brynnkohler4084 It's an affront to Christianity to tell disciples of Christ that they aren't Christian.
Love being Apostolic Pentecostal, but thankfully there is no denomination in Heaven!! 🙏🏻
Searcy is Churches of Christ Town USA, despite the variety of other options.
This is true. Isn't there also a coC university there, too?
@@actionsub Yes. It's called Harding. I've been inside it, and it's very, very direct about its leanings.
I misread the title as "McDonald's-level Deliverance" and was *very* curious about what kind of theological slam that was.
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McCommunion Deluxe
I love your videos! Could you make one about sedevacantist Catholics?
Wouldn't the Roman Catholic church be the true McDonald's Christian denomination? Far and away most prevalent nationwide.
I’m actually shocked that you went with a small place like Hazelton instead of the more recognizable Scranton. Impressive work
Doesn't Scranton have more than 25,000 people in it? That was his cut-off point.
Jimmy Swaggart's favorite denomination is $20.
I didn't realize that he was that cheap.
I appreciate your work. I am curious about historic African American denominations.
this is seriously helpful to me and I can imagine lots of other people
thank you
Searcy, Arkansas is very heavily dominated by the non-denominational Church of Christ. Harding University is aligned with the CoC and is a respected educational institution. Also, Searcy is very conservative politically which accounts for so many evangelical churches (Southern Baptist and Assemblies of God to name a couple).
No Orthodox churches whatsoever?
Most are in major cities. You don’t find them in regular small cities or small towns.
@@zarnoffa that's generally the case in the UK as well.
Hazelton the city apparently only has one, but the outskirts have several.
As a Catholic its hard for me to really understand not being able to go anywhere and find a chruch. Must suck
As a Baptist adjacent I get what you mean
Yeah, but do any of those churches have take out?
culvers i see you are a man of culture as well
I lived for many years in Sauk City, Wisconsin, home of the first Culver's restaurant.
@@ReadyToHarvest yeah I live in cedar rapids Iowa and there every where here
its really interesting to look at churches this way and see which churches are the most widespread
Very nice study, with good parameters, and I liked your use of the fast-food comparisons. Well done! Again as in the past, informative and instructive.
The amount of churches out there is scary, and kind of depressing
What do you mean?
If you mean the number of denominations, I agree. If you mean the number of parishes and church buildings and organizations with Christians in them, I'm bemused as to why you are watching this.
Some people would prefer that there be only one church building - or no more than one for each denomination - in each town but there are advantages to congregations with more than 150 members and there are advantages to congregations with no more than about 150 members.
If you are concerned that there are so many different ostensibly Christian organizations (aka denominations), please consider this. The Lord has called some people to emphasize one or more truths about himself and how he deals with the human race. He has called other people to emphasize other truths about himself. Examples include the Lutherans and baptists who emphasize justification, methodists and holiness denominations who emphasize sanctification and adventists who emphasize glorification. We could wish that all denominations would emphasize all three of those things but it would be unrealistic to hope that all denominations would emphasize all three things “equally”.
"Scary" only to Satan, I would say.
This inspired me to research the countries I’m from and that my parents are from…
NEW ZEALAND
Population: 5.084 million (2020)
Roman Catholic ✅
Baptist ✅
Pentecostal ✅
Lutheran ✅
Presbyterian/Reformed ✅
Methodist/Holiness ✅
Anglican/Episcopal ✅
Church of Christ ✅
Seventh-Day Adventist ✅
Jehovah's Witness ✅
Mormon ✅
(WESTERN) SAMOA
Population: 198,410 (2020)
Roman Catholic ✅
Baptist ✅
Pentecostal ✅
Lutheran ❌
Presbyterian/Reformed (Congregational) ✅
Methodist/Holiness ✅
Anglican/Episcopal ✅
Church of Christ ❌
Seventh-Day Adventist ✅
Jehovah's Witness ✅
Mormon ✅
TOKELAU
Population: 1,357 (2020)
Roman Catholic ✅
Baptist ❌
Pentecostal ✅
Lutheran ❌
Presbyterian/Reformed (Congregational) ✅
Methodist/Holiness ❌
Anglican/Episcopal ❌
Church of Christ ❌
Seventh-Day Adventist ✅
Jehovah's Witness ❌
Mormon ❌
Only stuck to the denomination’s you mentioned 🤓
Very neat!
As always love the video. Keep up the great work man.
Great video, awsome job on picking up the different types of catholics churchs in the towns. most people do not know about them. You videos are great.
Racine WI is drowning in Lutheran Churches mostly from how we used to be a huge center of Danish culture, so much so the Queen herself had visited back in the 70s.
But I was raised Catholic and for a reasons know we had at least 6 but I only attended 2. What's interesting is I remember reading Cracked article about outdated Catholic stereotypes media saying that in the US most Catholic churches don't still like cathedrals built in the middle ages. When I must be lucky then because both I grew up in looked pretty old fashioned.
I also know we had exactly two Independent Baptist Churches, I'd attended both of them a long time ago, and some other varying types of Baptist Churches, I think we have a Greek Orthodox Church and a Methodist Church. And one Charismatic group who had their meetings in a random room at the local hospital.
Really intriguing video brother. Grace and Peace.
I wish you got more likes. You do good work. Keep it up.
I've heard it said that Billy Graham once said that "you go anywhere in the world and you'll find two things: Coca-cola and the Assemblies of God!" I've been across the US and in some small, small places in the world, and it's true! Middle of nowhere, and there's a coke machine and an A/G church. Fun video man.
So I notice in your videos that you generally tend to avoid discussing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon), outside of a brief mention. I was simply wondering if you were planning a video where you compare their beliefs to other denominations, or something similar where they get discussed in more detail alongside these other denominations?
@Demon “Penetrator” they are an evil cult. Not real Christians.
Mormons aren't worth mentioning because first of all they aren't christian and second of all ALL of their doctrine comes from one man, Joseph Smith. One thing Smith is famous for is his idea that everyone that lives a good life, goes frequently to the very secretive Mormon temple ceremony and the really big one, gives ten percent of his gross, that's gross not net, to the church. If he does all of that he becomes a God and gets his own planet. If you think I am wrong, if you know a Mormon by chance ask them
Mormons have a pretty similar idea to gnosticism. Only difference is they don't say that God is evil but they do claim you can be a god.
@@garyolsen3409 Ask me how I know you're an exmormon LOL
@@stevecooper7883 Go ahead
Wait, some of y'all don't have White Castle?
White...Castle? You mean McDonald's, Hardee's? Ya, WC isn't everywhere
I lived in Searcy, AR for a while. I wonder if the speaker knew it's a hub for a religious college "Harding University", which is likely why it has so many of these churches.
Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD RESTED on the First day of creation??
Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD BLESSED the First day of
the week?
Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD SANCTIFIED ( made holy) the First day of the week?
Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD NAMED the First day of
the week?
Tell me, where in the Holy Bible does it say GOD DECLARE the First day of the week as HIS Holy Day?
---Catholics claim Sunday is the day of worship, a holy day.PROVE IT!!!!
Yeah, Catholics are virtually everywhere. However, I live in a bigger city with a larger Catholic population.
What is the 2nd biggest Christian denomination in Turkey?
#1 is Catholic
# FOURSQUARE!!!!
Bet you'd NEVER guessed that! 😁
(They a knee deep in earthquake recovery.)
I realize that this is a cursory overview, but the picture would be a bit different if you looked at 20 or so towns across the country with populations under 1,000. As someone raised in rural America, that's something I'd like to see. Maybe I'll do it myself.
God who created heaven and earth does not dwell in temples made with hands.
I was SUPER surprised to find out that Pentecostals are the single largest Protestant denomination - not just in America, in the world!
I am an Australian Christian living on the other side of the world. Recently, recovering after an operation, I was insomniac one evening and couldn't sleep at all so I turned on the television. I stumbled on the American ''God TV'' on the hospital's cable TV. My first time watching anything like this.
I was immediately repelled by the lunacy in front of me, but I decided to watch it throughout the evening to witness just how lunatic, how absurd the Pentecostal/ Charismatic entertainers errr ministers/ pastors had become.
There was Benny un-HINN-ged and an equal loony, Kenneth Copeland. Then, a crazy woman named Joyce Meyers, whose finest, godly virtue was the size of her car-tire sized earrings. And more; many more
This is American Christianity, populated by hucksters and charlatans and supported by the ignorant.
This is why church attendance and membership is declining among so many young people in the USA
I thought the cross on the French Fries was a speaker’s volume buttons for a sec.
Most Denominations are relatively new on the scenes. Protestants are 500 years old. The Roman Catholic Church is 1,600 years old. The Catholics went full Mohammad for an eon. Protestantism is grassroots. Catholicism is on the decline from 87% in the 1980’s to 47% in 2020. Islam is on the rise, mainly due to their by the sword methods and doing what the Catholics did for an eon in their territories suppressing other beliefs, often violently. So growth for other religions will be stifled and grow much slower in those countries. Where as in countries that do not yet allow Islam to just do their Sharia thing, they’re also growing due to the rise in mass immigration into those countries, and those countries not doing anything about it whatsoever. Protestantism is growing rapidly in Africa and Latin American countries. However, I’m sure in those numbers there are heretical groups like “Charismaticism” being spread rapidly, which is very predatory on poor populations, like the Catholic church was for 1,000 years. But without the violence. Either way, Christians need to get it together and spread the Gospel more. However, the book of Revelation says it will get worse and not better before the coming of our Lord. So either way, the outcome is still the same. Amen!