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Church Life & Membership in sermons

Church Life & Membership comes up in 11% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Unitarian Universalist (15%), African Methodist Episcopal (10%), Baptist (10%) churches. Its share has held steady since 2025 (10%).

11% of sermons5,367 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about our congregation, church family, membership, the body of christ, gather together, welcome to worship, new members, the local church. Part of Church & Mission. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.7%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%10%20%30%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 12%Progressive 2017: 6.2%Progressive 2018: 8.7%Progressive 2019: 8.1%Progressive 2020: 12%Progressive 2021: 12%Progressive 2022: 15%Progressive 2023: 14%Progressive 2024: 17%Progressive 2025: 16%Progressive 2026: 21%Mainline 2016: 7.5%Mainline 2018: 15%Mainline 2019: 5.0%Mainline 2020: 6.9%Mainline 2021: 6.4%Mainline 2022: 4.6%Mainline 2023: 11%Mainline 2024: 11%Mainline 2025: 9.6%Mainline 2026: 7.2%Black church 2022: 5.8%Black church 2023: 17%Black church 2024: 27%Black church 2025: 8.8%Black church 2026: 8.9%Evangelical 2016: 4.2%Evangelical 2017: 11%Evangelical 2018: 7.3%Evangelical 2019: 7.5%Evangelical 2020: 14%Evangelical 2021: 7.0%Evangelical 2022: 7.3%Evangelical 2023: 9.7%Evangelical 2024: 12%Evangelical 2025: 11%Evangelical 2026: 9.4%All churches 2016: 8.8%All churches 2017: 8.1%All churches 2018: 8.8%All churches 2019: 7.6%All churches 2020: 12%All churches 2021: 9.1%All churches 2022: 11%All churches 2023: 12%All churches 2024: 15%All churches 2025: 13%All churches 2026: 9.6%

By denomination

Unitarian Universalist: 15% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist15%African Methodist Episcopal: 10% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal10%Baptist: 10% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist10%United Church of Christ: 8.4% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ8.4%Presbyterian: 8.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian8.3%United Methodist: 8.2% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist8.2%Lutheran: 8.1% of 639 sermonsLutheran8.1%Christian / non-denominational: 7.9% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational7.9%Mennonite: 7.9% of 227 sermonsMennonite7.9%Unity: 5.0% of 844 sermonsUnity5.0%Jewish: 3.7% of 242 sermonsJewish3.7%Episcopal: 3.2% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal3.2%Catholic: 1.8% of 334 sermonsCatholic1.8%Orthodox: 0.7% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.7%

All churches: 11%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Church Life & Membership more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

2nd Principle: Justice & Equity ×2.2Intercessory Prayer ×2.1Stewardship & Giving ×2.1Economic Justice & Wealth ×2.0Pluralism & Interfaith ×1.9Unitarian Universalist Identity ×1.9Immigration & Refuge ×1.8Beloved Community ×1.8

Churches that preach it most

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Share of transcribed sermons on Divining with at least one chapter on a theme, from Divining’s topic segmenter; 2016 to Nov 2026. Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Site map · Divining: a deeper search for meaning · build_seo_pages v0.0.1