New Presbyterian Church (USA) Report Reveals Shocking Membership Statistics
The Presbyterian Church (USA) just revealed its membership numbers for 2023, and it is not pretty. The liberal denomination is showing a continued loss of membership, closure of churches, an increasingly aging population, and an inexorable decline into irrelevancy, with one of the only rising data points being the number of members who identify as “non-binary” or “genderqueer.”
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Since its formation, the PCUSA has denigrated to one massive pen for goats, run almost exclusively by faithless, didn’t-finish-well octogenarians and blue-haired lesbians, with barely a sheep to be found anywhere. Some of their greatest hits over the last three years include:
Church Fasting from ‘Whiteness’ During Lent
Church Releases ‘Transgendered’ Remix of ‘Be Thou My Vision,’
Pro-Abortion Pastrix Says Stories of Jonah and Zacchaeus are Proof We Should Subsidize Birth-Control
Presbyterian Pastor Denies The Virgin Birth ‘It’s Biology 101’
No Surprise Here: PCUSA’s Clergy Health Plan Covers Elective Abortions
PCUSA Pastor Says Jesus Would Have Been an ‘Abortion Doula’ + ‘Blessed Are Those End Their Pregnancies’
According to statistics released by the denomination’s Interim Unified Agency:
- Membership declined by 45,932 people from the year prior, representing a 4% drop to 1,094,733. Over the last 30 years, the PCUSA has lost 64% of their members.
- Of the million members that remain, 33.46% of them are over the age of 70, meaning that the denomination is both spiritually and physically dying.
- Another 25.6% are between the ages of 56-70. Less than 4% are under 17, with another 7% between the ages of 17- 25.
- The PCUSA lost 195 ministers in 2023, 150 who either died or retired, and they shuttered 133 churches.
- The majority of churches are small, with over 44% having 50 or fewer members.
- 21.8% of churches comprise less than 25 people, and another 22.3% have between 26 and 50 members. Furthermore, another 23.6% of churches have between 51-100 members. Notably, these numbers are only the names on the books and don’t reflect only those who consistently gather in person every week, which is much lower.
- 87.85% of members are white, and women outnumber the men 60%-40%
Lastly, one of the few data points where the denomination saw an increase was the number of members who identify as non-binary/genderqueer, increasing by 17% from the year before.
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