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Very true. If you say "Christianity" to a non-believer they often think of Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and Catholic churches; because those are the historic churches that have made up America's Christian populace for centuries.
Somewhat. Anglicans and Lutherans for example usually feel closer to Catholics because of similar theology and practice (sacramental systems and liturgy) than they would Methodists. But for the most part your right in saying that among the mainline denominations theres a large amount of theological overlap.
Somewhat. Anglicans and Lutherans for example usually feel closer to Catholics because of similar theology and practice (sacramental systems and liturgy) than they would Methodists. But for the most part your right in saying that among the mainline denominations theres a large amount of theological overlap.
A few years back I had the opportunity to take a look at statistics based on the number of members that each protestant denomination claimed to possess. Oddly enough, of all the Protestant churches, some of which have been around now for nearly 400 to 500 years, the Pentecostal denomination had nearly 150 to 200 million members worldwide (roughly 500,000 million) more than any other church and it has only been around for a little over a single century. Now I do realize that these numbers are probably inflated across the board however, it was staggering to see how much the Pentecostal denomination has grown in the 106 years since it's inception.