Get Ready to Be Shocked: The Church Divorce Rate
This is a game-changer. Talk about “an old wives’ tale.” You’ve heard it said that 1) 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce; 2) most marriages that do happen to make it are, nonetheless, unhappy, and 3) Christians are just as likely to divorce as non-believers. These claims, long understood to be research-based facts, never quite sat right with me. Still, admittedly, while these assertions do swim upstream against the flow of both our common sense and our common experience, we have, nevertheless, accepted them (present company included) as valid because – well, you know, because “social science …”
Here is the truth….
♥ The actual divorce rate has never gotten close to 50 percent.
♥ Those who attend church regularly have a significantly lower divorce rate than those who don’t.
♥ Most marriages are happy.
♥ Simple changes make a big difference in most marriage problems.
♥ Most remarriages succeed.
“‘But the divorce rate has been dropping,’ Feldhahn said. ‘We’ve never hit those numbers [the 50 percent figure]. We’ve never gotten close.’”
“And it’s even lower among churchgoers, where a couple’s chance of divorcing is more likely in the single digits or teens,” added CBN.
Additionally, the study determined that four-out-of-five marriages are happy. “That number flies in the face of the popular belief that only about 30 percent of marriages are happy.”
For more information on this story see: http://www.westernjournalism.com/flash-christians-actually-far-less-likely-divorce/
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