Personally I blame all that highfalutin college education - I mean all you gotta to be able to do is read, write and do basic sums, what more do you want to do after all?
So let's apply the KISS theory - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
They are told by Messrs Jackson et al. to 'not boast in numbers'? Why, because the numbers are decreasing!
Total baptized 2003-12: 2,707,710
Total baptized 1993-02: 3,149,153
That's a pure 14% decrease.
Nothing complicated or controversial just 441,443 less people being baptized decade-on-decade. No death-rates, birth-rates, what-you-like-rates.
Just a simple 44,144 less people being baptized each year.
So, over a twenty year period there is now a consistent 848 less people being baptized each week.
That's a 121 less people being baptized each day.
Heck, that effectively means there is one less 'congregation' each and every day - yeah you could even say one congregation is disappearing each day!
Of course, it doesn't actually mean it's true.... LOL!
That's all folks!
DarK SpliveR