Salvation & Grace in sermons

Salvation & Grace comes up in 9.8% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (24%), Baptist (21%), African Methodist Episcopal (21%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (15% of sermons, up from 7.2%).

9.8% of sermons4,846 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about saved by grace, salvation, justified, justification, born again, eternal life, grace of god, faith alone. Part of Scripture & Doctrine. Least common in Catholic churches (1.8%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%10%20%30%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 4.4%Progressive 2017: 6.8%Progressive 2018: 8.3%Progressive 2019: 9.0%Progressive 2020: 4.4%Progressive 2021: 3.2%Progressive 2022: 4.4%Progressive 2023: 5.5%Progressive 2024: 5.0%Progressive 2025: 4.5%Progressive 2026: 4.3%Mainline 2016: 2.5%Mainline 2018: 7.5%Mainline 2019: 2.5%Mainline 2020: 12%Mainline 2021: 5.8%Mainline 2022: 3.9%Mainline 2023: 5.7%Mainline 2024: 8.6%Mainline 2025: 10%Mainline 2026: 10%Black church 2022: 20%Black church 2023: 26%Black church 2024: 23%Black church 2025: 20%Black church 2026: 21%Evangelical 2016: 23%Evangelical 2017: 22%Evangelical 2018: 27%Evangelical 2019: 19%Evangelical 2020: 18%Evangelical 2021: 9.5%Evangelical 2022: 13%Evangelical 2023: 16%Evangelical 2024: 22%Evangelical 2025: 15%Evangelical 2026: 22%All churches 2016: 10%All churches 2017: 13%All churches 2018: 16%All churches 2019: 13%All churches 2020: 7.3%All churches 2021: 5.6%All churches 2022: 6.3%All churches 2023: 7.7%All churches 2024: 10%All churches 2025: 9.6%All churches 2026: 16%

By denomination

Mennonite: 24% of 227 sermonsMennonite24%Baptist: 21% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist21%African Methodist Episcopal: 21% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal21%Lutheran: 16% of 639 sermonsLutheran16%Christian / non-denominational: 15% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational15%Presbyterian: 12% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian12%United Church of Christ: 7.8% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ7.8%United Methodist: 7.4% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist7.4%Episcopal: 5.6% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal5.6%Jewish: 5.0% of 242 sermonsJewish5.0%Unitarian Universalist: 4.6% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist4.6%Orthodox: 3.6% of 305 sermonsOrthodox3.6%Unity: 3.0% of 844 sermonsUnity3.0%Catholic: 1.8% of 334 sermonsCatholic1.8%

All churches: 9.8%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Romans ×4.0The Road to Damascus ×3.9Ephesians ×3.5Covenant ×3.0The Woman at the Well ×3.0Hebrews ×2.9Angels & Spiritual Warfare ×2.9Attributes of God ×2.9

Churches that preach it most

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