Some Other Reasons To Go To Church

The Alban Institute cites these reasons why people should become active members of a Christian church: • Active church members have a 60 percent less chance of a heart attack. • Active church members have a 55 percent less chance of a one-car accident. • Active church members live an average of 5.7 years longer. • While only 30 percent of the highly unchurched say they are very happy, 70 percent of the highly committed church people say they are very happy. • The National Institute of Health has now developed five protective factors that help fight coronary disease. The leading one is weekly church attendance. • Teen suicide, the number two killer of teens, is substantially less frequent among teens that attend church weekly. • A Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance “Survey of the Values of the American People in the 1980s” reflected that the single most important variable in the health-promoting lifestyles was religious affiliation.