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Old 08-24-2007, 10:53 AM
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Exclamation The MMORPG Movement

For all practical purposes, it has only been in existance since the early 1990's. This movement has already grown beyond 20 million members, with some estimations as high as 60 million members globally. They gave around 1.1 BILLION dollars just in 2005 alone. I have referenced a 2006 list of "religious" churches below for comparison.

Have you ever heard of MMORPG? Do you even know who these people are in your community? Does your church make an attempt to reach out to these people? Would they feel welcome in your church and/or be willing to stay?

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http://www.ncccusa.org/news/060330yearbook1.html

2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.
1. The Catholic Church, 67,820,833 members, reporting an increase of .83 percent.
2. The Southern Baptist Convention, 16,267,494 members, reporting a decrease of 1.05 percent. (See clarification, below.)
3. The United Methodist Church, 8,186,254 members, reporting a decrease of .79 percent.
4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5,999,177 members, reporting an increase of 1.74 percent.
5. The Church of God in Christ, 5,499,875 members, no increase or decrease reported.
6. National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., 5,000,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 4,930,429, reporting a decrease of 1.09 percent.
8. National Baptist Convention of America, 3,500,000, no increase or decrease reported.
9. Presbyterian Church (USA), 3,189,573 members, reporting a decrease of 1.60 percent.
10. Assemblies of God, 2,779,095 members, reporting an increase of 1.81 percent.
11. African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2,500,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
12. National Missionary Baptist Convention of America, 2,500,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
13. Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., 2,500,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
14. The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), 2,463,747, reporting a decrease or 1.01 percent.
15. Episcopal Church, 2,284,233, reporting a decrease of 1.55 percent.
16. Churches of Christ, 1,500,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
17. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, 1,500,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
18. Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc., 1,500,000 members, no increase or decrease reported.
19. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1,432,795 members, no increase or decrease reported.
20. American Baptist Churches in the USA, 1,424,840, reporting a decrease of .57 percent.
21. United Church of Christ, 1,265,786, reporting a decrease of 2.38 percent.
22. Baptist Bible Fellowship International, 1,200,000, no increase or decrease reported.
23. Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, 1,071,615 members, no increase or decrease reported.
24. The Orthodox Church in America, 1,064,000 members, reporting an increase of 6.40 percent.
25. Jehovah's Witnesses, 1,029,902 members, reporting a decrease of 1.07 members.
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Old 08-24-2007, 10:56 AM
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Old 08-24-2007, 11:02 AM
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I may be lost however, I do not see the movement you are mentioning in this report. Can you spell out what MMORPG stands for.
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Old 08-24-2007, 11:03 AM
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oh! may Jesus help us.
You aren't aware of who they are???
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Old 08-24-2007, 11:05 AM
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I may be lost however, I do not see the movement you are mentioning in this report. Can you spell out what MMORPG stands for.
You're right, it's not mentioned in "that" report....

Have you visited a high school or college campus recently? Many of these teens and young adults are actively apart of this movement....
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Old 08-24-2007, 11:16 AM
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive...er_online_game

These people may play online sports games on their XBOX 360's or PS3's, play Spades or other card games online or some other game genre that interests them....
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Old 08-24-2007, 11:18 AM
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Makes one wonder how much more out of touch the Church is to how people are
spending their time.... or what interests them.... or what makes them tick....
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Basically it is either WoW, Linniege, Everquest, and then the golden oldies such as Ultima Online, Meridian 59, Star Wars Online, and a host of others.
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Am I the only one here who is not understanding at all what this thread is in regards to?? I've never heard of the MMORPG Movement. And then when it is explained what the letters stand for, I can't see what that has to do with the decreases in church memberships of different organizations??

Please tell me I am not losing my mind!!
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I didn't get it before, but I get it now.... It's cause there's millions of these people with increasing numbers, but the religious organizations memberships are going down and they're much smaller numbers as well....
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