Fellowship:
Five Reasons Why You Should Be "All In"
How would you rate your mental and emotional wellbeing? Excellent? Good? Fair? or Poor?
For the past two decades, Gallup has asked Americans to rate the state of their own mental and emotional wellbeing as excellent, good, fair, or poor. Their research reveals an alarming trend. For the last two decades, especially since COVID, across all demographic subgroups there has been a steady decline in how people view their own mental and emotional wellbeing. More and more people are living with a sense of despair and loneliness. The data is so alarming that this past January by a unanimous vote the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County declared loneliness a major health emergency.
But surprisingly there is one demographic subgroup that didn’t report a decline but actually reported an increase of wellness. That subgroup is made up of people who attended church regularly. Social-science research shows that regular church attendance is good for people. Regular worship and fellowship help us to thrive not only spiritually but emotionally, socially, and even physically.
Why do those who don’t attend church regularly struggle so much with despair and loneliness? What are people finding in church that they can’t find anywhere else? For Christians, the answer is Jesus Christ. As Christians we don’t go to church to feel happy. We go to church to seek Jesus, the source true joy and meaning. We go to church not to find perfect people but to help each other grow past our imperfections. Christians who are committed to church understand that without regular worship and fellowship we tend to wander off and become vulnerable to the temptations and traps of this world.
Join us this Sunday from 10-11:15 for message titled: Fellowship: Five Reasons Why You Should Be "All In"
For the past two decades, Gallup has asked Americans to rate the state of their own mental and emotional wellbeing as excellent, good, fair, or poor. Their research reveals an alarming trend. For the last two decades, especially since COVID, across all demographic subgroups there has been a steady decline in how people view their own mental and emotional wellbeing. More and more people are living with a sense of despair and loneliness. The data is so alarming that this past January by a unanimous vote the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County declared loneliness a major health emergency.
But surprisingly there is one demographic subgroup that didn’t report a decline but actually reported an increase of wellness. That subgroup is made up of people who attended church regularly. Social-science research shows that regular church attendance is good for people. Regular worship and fellowship help us to thrive not only spiritually but emotionally, socially, and even physically.
Why do those who don’t attend church regularly struggle so much with despair and loneliness? What are people finding in church that they can’t find anywhere else? For Christians, the answer is Jesus Christ. As Christians we don’t go to church to feel happy. We go to church to seek Jesus, the source true joy and meaning. We go to church not to find perfect people but to help each other grow past our imperfections. Christians who are committed to church understand that without regular worship and fellowship we tend to wander off and become vulnerable to the temptations and traps of this world.
Join us this Sunday from 10-11:15 for message titled: Fellowship: Five Reasons Why You Should Be "All In"
