Original sentence: Churches of Christ had a presence in 2,429 counties, placing them fifth behind the United Methodist Church, Catholic Church, Southern Baptist Convention and Assemblies of God – but the average number of adherents per county was low at 677.For example, the aforementioned Christian Church uses musical instruments in worship, whereas the Churches of Christ believe a cappella singing to be proper, although some Church of Christ congregations do use instruments.S andover 40,000 individual congregations worldwide.They typically reject doctrinal writings that disagree with their interpretations, and all written religious creeds; the churches of Christ thus identify themselves as being nondenominational
Edited sentence: Churches of Christ had a presence in 2,429 counties, placing them fifth behind the United Methodist Church, Catholic Church, Southern Baptist Convention and Assemblies of God – with the average number of adherents per county at 677.For example, the aforementioned Christian Church uses musical instruments in worship, whereas the Churches of Christ believe a cappella singing to be proper, due to a lack of biblical examples of their use, although some Church of Christ congregations do use instruments.S and over 40,000 individual congregations worldwide.They typically reject non-biblical doctrinal writings that disagree with their interpretations, and all written religious creeds; the churches of Christ thus identify themselves as being nondenominational