11.   Church membership was forbidden within the Communist Party, and thus became a pretext for denying employment.

12.   Church membership is hardly growing, and in most Protestant pews it continues to shrink.

13.   Citizenship depended on church membership.

14.   For twenty years, their churches have declined precipitously while evangelical church membership exploded.

15.   It includes factors such as belief in God, church membership levels, and confidence in religion, church and clergy.

16.   Maykus, of Hospice Austin, thinks dwindling church membership has had a dramatic effect on funeral rites.

17.   No one is counting church membership.

18.   Opponents of assisted suicide point out that Oregon has traditionally liberal leanings and the second-lowest level of church membership in the country.

19.   Shipps said church membership had also increased because earlier converts had had children.

20.   Some say yes, particularly if back-to-basics, stand-for-something affirmations can reverse the steady decline in mainline Protestant church membership.