Why the Methodists will not split (any time soon)

Mark Tooley

Even as the U.S. church loses nearly 100,000 members annually, the African church gains over 200,000 annually, in places like Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola. The DRC alone has more than 2 million United Methodists, and there may be more Methodists in church on a typical Sunday in the DRC, where attendance exceeds membership, than in the U.S., where the opposite is true.

http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/article/the-coming-methodist-split-5796747523653632