What if this 3% really reflects an actual loss of 7% overcome by counting the 10% of irregulars? Whatever the case, they can only play with numbers so long. They have been obsessed with numbers and it wouldn't surprise me if that was done away with if the numbers keep going down, or rising in the case of the "annointed". Of course before it was stopped, there would be a spin about the love of the greater number...
I would really like to see a change like the Worldwide Church of God. Who knows, it might happen.