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The overall stats put out by the LDS Church last week was dismal. I would imagine there’s a fair amount of talk behind closed doors as to how they’re going to deal with the substantial loss of membership, not to mention the retention rate problem they have right now.

After looking at the ‘fruits of their labors’ my heart is broken as I think about the futility of it all. Every statistic revealed a downward trend, except one. The one number that went up was the unaccounted for members they added.

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The past forty years has brought a lot of change to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Probably more than they expected, and far less than they were wanting to see (as in members, that is).

The one thing that’s remained consistent is the downward spiral of church membership. While the rate of decline has fluctuated, the one constant element is its presence; year in, and year out.

The other common denominator is the Church’s inability to face facts, and tell the truth about why they’re experiencing an unprecedented loss of members. In 2015 we noted their membership growth rate was the slowest since 1937, and as we saw then, they weren’t telling the truth about how many people are Mormon.

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