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What was the impact of all these cumulative decisions?

What was the membership at its peak of RLDS community of Christ and where is it today?

If you are to describe the consequences of all these changes, what is it done to the church?

Positively and negatively.

The answer to that has several elements to it.

The community of Christ has continued to grow membership wise throughout this whole time but it has been growing internationally.

The primary growth has not been in the Western world but it has been in other parts of the world.

Overall the membership has continued to increase.

You lost domestic losses with international conversions?

If you are just looking at numbers of members, it is very different realities in some ways.

In the United States of Canada, Australia, British Isles, the membership has slowly declined, following the track of some mainline churches and were impacted by some of the same cultural factors.

We did have several migrations of members out of active participation in the RLDS church following the approval of the ordination of women to the priesthood.

That was a culmination in my opinion of a lot of the issues that had been discussed in the late 60s, the 70s and the early 80s.

That kind of became the break point for some people, women in the priesthood.

Around what year was that?

The first four that was approved and about a year later, first ordinations of women to the priesthood.

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