Divorce Rate Lower For Practicing Christians

"DIVORCE RATE LOWER FOR PRACTICING CHRISTIANS" "IF YOU ARE LIKE ME, YOU HAVE HEARD MORE THAN ONCE THAT THE DIVORCE RATE AMONG CHRISTIANS IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS NON-CHRISTIANS. WELL A NEW STUDY HAS CAME OUT THAT SHOWS THAT THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU DEFINE WHO IS A CHRISTIAN. IF YOU LUMP TOGETHER EVERYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE CHRISTIAN, WHETHER PRACTICING OR NOT, THEN THEY ARE RIGHT. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE STATISTICALLY BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS. HOWEVER IF YOU DIG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE STATISTICS THEN YOU FIND THAT THOSE THAT ARE "PRACTICING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS" THE DIVORCE RATE IS MARKEDLY LOWER.""STUDY SHOWS DIVORCE RATE 35% LOWER FOR PRACTICING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.""PROFESSOR BRADLEY WRIGHT, A SOCIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, DID A DEEPER STUDY OF PEOPLE OF FAITH AND IF THERE WAS ANY CORRELATION BETWEEN THE AMOUNT THAT THEY PRACTICED THEIR FAITH AND THE DIVORCE RATE OF THESE PEOPLE. HE FOUND THAT REGARDLESS IF THEY WERE CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS, ROMAN CATHOLICS, OR OF THE JEWISH FAITH, THE AMOUNT THAT THEY PRACTICED THEIR FAITH LOWERED THE DIVORCE RATE DRASTICALLY." "FOR CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS IT CAME TO A 35% REDUCTION IN THE DIVORCE RATE. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A MEMBER OF A CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH ALONE WILL PROTECT YOU AGAINST DIVORCE, BUT IF YOU PRACTICE WHAT THEY TEACH THEN IT WILL LOWER YOUR CHANCES OF DIVORCE.""RELIGIOUS PRACTICES THAT LOWER THE DIVORCE RATE.""IN DR. WRIGHT'S STUDY, THERE WERE THREE THINGS THAT WERE LOOKED AT TO DETERMINE IF SOMEONE WAS PRACTICING THEIR FAITH. THOSE THINGS WERE" * "CHURCH ATTENDANCE. IN THE STUDY, THOSE THAT ATTENDED CHURCH REGULARLY, ALMOST EVERY WEEK, HAD A 38% DIVORCE RATE WHERE THOSE THAT ONLY ATTENDED ONCE IN A WHILE HAD A 60% DIVORCE RATE." * "PRAYING SEPARATELY AND TOGETHER. THE OLD ADAGE THAT SAYS THE COUPLE THAT PRAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER, HOLDS TRUE." * "DAILY BIBLE READING. PEOPLE WHO MADE IT A PRACTICE TO READ THEIR BIBLE DAILY AND OTHER INSPIRATIONAL MATERIAL INCLUDING DEVOTIONALS AND TEACHING MATERIAL HAD A LOWER DIVORCE RATE.""DR. WRIGHT STATES THAT THESE PRACTICES MAY NOT BE EXACTLY WHAT LOWERS THE DIVORCE RATE BUT THEY ARE INDICATORS OF PEOPLE WHO TAKE THEIR FAITH SERIOUSLY AND IT IS THAT FAITH THAT SEEMS TO LOWER THEIR DIVORCE RATE.""AN ALARMING STATISTIC FOR THOSE THAT ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR FAITH.""THE MOST ALARMING STATISTIC IN THIS STUDY WAS THE FACT THAT THE DIVORCE RATE WAS 20% HIGHER FOR THOSE THAT ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR FAITH COMPARED TO NON-CHRISTIANS. IN OTHER WORDS, THOSE THAT WERE NOT KEEPING THEIR COMMITMENT TO GOD WERE LESS LIKELY TO KEEP THEIR COMMITMENT TO THEIR SPOUSE. THEIR LACK OF COMMITMENT WAS DETERMINED BY THE SAME MEASURES USED TO DETERMINE COMMITMENT.""PRACTICING CHRISTIANS HAVE MORE SATISFYING MARRIAGES.""ANOTHER STUDY DONE BY PROFESSOR SCOTT STANLEY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, SHOWS THAT THOSE THAT TAKE SERIOUSLY THEIR FAITH REPORT A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF SATISFACTION WITH THEIR MARRIAGES. THEY HAD HIGHER LEVELS OF COMMITMENT, MORE SATISFACTION WITH THEIR PARTNER, LESS THOUGHTS AND TALK OF DIVORCE, AND LESS NEGATIVITY IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS." "AS YOU CAN SEE, BEING A SERIOUS DISCIPLE OF JESUS HAS MORE BENEFITS THAT MEET THE EYE!" "BLESSINGS" "PASTOR DUKE""HTTP://CHRISTLICHE-RADIOSENDER.BLOGSPOT.COM/""HTTP://RADIOMEGAPOWER-NONSTOP.BLOGSPOT.DE/""HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/MEGAPOWERDANY ""HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/MEGAPOWER1976""MARZIPANDANIELE@YAHOO.DE "