Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade.
Many churches will be unable to escape this “tsunami” of closings — a grim trajectory one pastor described as, “Every year the pews are getting emptier and the collection plates getting lighter.”
the harmful ones are the evangelical ones, and the televangencial churches. the small denominations usually are not part of that mainstream.
Still, evangelical churches have 60 million members in the US, or slightly under a quarter of US adults.