Mormon Church: 2035
May 14, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
In roughly 25 years the Mormon Church… (will have had or will currently have)
1. Will have had a member be the President of the United States? Leader of another country?
2. Will have had a Prophet who is originally from somewhere outside the United States?
3. Will have had more than 3 Latin Apostles?
4. Will have had an African-American Apostle?
5. Will have more than 50 million members?
6. Will have a temple in India?
7. Will have moved its headquarters away from Salt Lake City?
8. Will have more members in: Africa, South America or Southeast Asia?
9. Will have more than 300 temples?
10. Will be established in the Middle East?
11. Will have only members doing missionary work in U.S., Europe and South America so as to focus on high growth areas of Africa, the Middle East and Asia?
12. Will have finally dispelled misconceptions surrounding polygamy?
13. Will be the only institution not accepting homosexual marriage?
Your thoughts and answers? Any other interesting “will have hads” or “will currently haves”?
“Will have had a Prophet who is originally from somewhere outside the United States?”
This has already happened. John Taylor was born in England.
Also, a number of prophets were born in the Utah territory, before it became a state.
@JDD-
I’m glad someone is on the ball.
1. Will have had **another prophet** who is originally from somewhere outside the United States?
Thanks for the correction re: JT, we’ll call the Utah Territory a technicality and let it slide.
DH
Alright, one at a time.
1. No, never will happen because of religious bias in the country.
2. John Taylor was from England. So, Yes. Also, in 26 years Bednar or Uchdorf will be the President of the church.
3. No.
4. No, he will be African. Not african-american. Wilford Woodruff told the saints in 1898 that Christ will come to us while we are in the Rocky Mountains.
5. Maybe, if China opens up, or India becomes more open.
6. Yes, or Sri Lanka.
7. No, that will never happen until the Lord returns.
8. South America
9. No. Maybe 250 by then.
10. No, that will take the second coming to happen first.
11. No. There will always be full-time missonaries to do the work. Members will assist them.
12. No, this will always be with us.
13. No, Catholics and evangelicals will resist that to the end.
Extrapolating current trends, the Church will have a total membership of between 20 and 22.5 million by the year 2035.
The world population will have increased from 6.7 billion to 8.1 billion during that same period. Thus membership as a percentage of world population will have increased from its current level of 0.20% to between 0.25% and 0.30%.
Weekly attendance at Sacrament Meeting worldwide should be about 8-9 million.
About 10% of the membership of the Church will live in Utah, which will represent less than 50% of the population of that state.
1. Will have had a member be the President of the United States? Leader of another country? Yes. Also, there will have been an LDS on the U.S. Supreme Court
2. Will have had a Prophet who is originally from somewhere outside the United States? (Apart from John Taylor, possibly Pres. Uchtdorf)
3. Will have had more than 3 Latin Apostles? No.
4. Will have had an African-American Apostle? No. (I hope so, but I doubt it.)
5. Will have more than 50 million members? No.
6. Will have a temple in India? Yes.
7. Will have moved its headquarters away from Salt Lake City? No, but there will likely be continued growth in regionalization.
8. Will have more members in: Africa, South America or Southeast Asia? South America
9. Will have more than 300 temples? No.
10. Will be established in the Middle East? Yes.
11. Will have only members doing missionary work in U.S., Europe and South America so as to focus on high growth areas of Africa, the Middle East and Asia? No.
12. Will have finally dispelled misconceptions surrounding polygamy? No.
13. Will be the only institution not accepting homosexual marriage? No. I believe there will be continuing revelation on GLBT issues. I do not know what its nature will be, except that I think the LDS Church will become more flexible and compassionate with respect to GLBT issues than many Christians who are less open to prophetic changes.
My own thoughts…
1. Yes eventually. Though I don’t know if it will be Romney in ‘12. I still think he has an uphill battle to climb. It may be awhile yet.
2. Uchtdorf eventually I think.
3. 3? Probably not 3 but I would say 1 or 2 by then.
4. I hope so. Though I agree with Russ, probably from Africa.
5. Again, I agree with Russ. Probably not unless China opens or India. Which may both happen but then it will take some time before growth really takes off as the church likes to build a solid foundation first.
6. Temple in India, yes.
7. Nope, still SLC.
8. Africa will be growing like crazy but I think SA has too much of a jump on it to catch up in just 25 years.
9. Not 300, 200 for sure, maybe 250.
10. Established yes, huge presence, no.
11. Maybe not no missionaries but much reduced from now.
12. Nope.
13. Hope not. I like DavidH’s responses.
P.S.
The frowny face goes with #12
DH
1. Will have had a member be the President of the United States? Leader of another country? I really hope so. It will either be that or the other extreme.
2. Will have had a Prophet who is originally from somewhere outside the United States? No I don’t think so.
3. Will have had more than 3 Latin Apostles? You have a couple in the presidency of the 70 right now. I don’t think you will have 3 but I think 2.
4. Will have had an African-American Apostle? I truly hope so.
5. Will have more than 50 million members? No, We have a long way to go.
6. Will have a temple in India?
7. Will have moved its headquarters away from Salt Lake City? NO
8. Will have more members in: Africa, South America or Southeast Asia? South America
9. Will have more than 300 temples? No, I think we will coninue to build temples, but it will slow down a bit. But I am really hoping for one in Otavalo, Ecuador where I served my mission.
10. Will be established in the Middle East? I think so. We are seeing the roots of that now.
11. Will have only members doing missionary work in U.S., Europe and South America so as to focus on high growth areas of Africa, the Middle East and Asia? No
12. Will have finally dispelled misconceptions surrounding polygamy? Unfortunetly not.
13. Will be the only institution not accepting homosexual marriage?
No, I think their are many churches that will hold strong to this.
Here is a couple for you…
The church will open another church run university back east? Maybe a BYU-Kirtland or Nauvoo?
Of the “top 10″ businesses in the world, LDS members will be CEOs of at least half of those?
1. Probably not, I don’t think that will happen until the Political kingdom of God becomes a reality.
2. maybe, President Uchtdorf could very well likely by the president of the church then.
3. I don’t know about 3 but probably at least 1 or 2.
4. Likely African but not African-American
5.That won’t happen that soon. It would be remarkable if it did
though.
6. I am confidant that there will be one by that time.
7. Of coarse not, I don’t think were going to Missouri that soon.
8.South America-duh.
9. I am not sure about 300, but more than 200 though.
10.Probably, hopefully
11.Not none-but less.
12.Oh, I hope so.
13.I hope not.