By imploying the two next membership correction schemes (keeping the ones terminating their membership on the lists somewhere, and foremost the ones that are baptized when dead), little by little, a steady increase.
Growth will probably continue but steadily recline. Major policy or doctrinal changes are what will kill the church. It would be nice if someone broke into the 1st presidency vault and stole all the documents and objects in it and made it all public. I am sure the information from that will leave serious if not mortal wound. Maybe an honest president of the church telling everyone in a GC that he doesnt literally speak to god face to face, that he never saw him in the flesh and that none of the apostles have done any of that either. It would be nice to see a cluster of apostles leave the church and denounce it as simply man made. Maybe a cocky prophet decides he will translate some record and it turns out to be an absolute fraud. Modern documentation of that disaster would prove pretty damning. Honestly I can't see the church dying until well over 50 years unless some radical change is made.
No new revelation No new translation Running out of locations for the BofM events Insurmountable evidence piling up against it's claims Fewer and fewer attendee's Less and less money being donated More and more opposition for it's discriminatory practices Less and less temple attendence More and more distancing from previously held 'eternal' laws More and more facts showing the lies of the Church becoming public
It's like Shiz, gasping for breath without realising it's head's been cut off...
because of it's generational influence in UT and the surrounding areas. It's not just members that keep it going. It's financial base is immense from what has been posted here. It's a bunch of corporations that will sustain it in many ways other than the number of people attending.