text: If the Seventh-day Adventist church is the fastest growing Christian denomination in N America, perhaps  the problem is not  structural.   It is  unlikely we are not progressive enough; membership in progressive protestant denominations has collaped. 
  
  If we were organized on a congregation model,  we wouldn't be  and couldn't be Seventh-day Adventists.   We would be like Seventh-day Baptists whose N American membership of five thousand is the same as it was in 1850.