Does going to church matter?

Is there a difference between Christians who attend church regularly and those that don’t?

Mark Galli, Editor of Christianity Today explains why going to church really does matter in the life of the believer.

According to Mark, a distinction must be made between believers who go to church on a regular basis and those who don’t.

There are a variety of reasons for a Christian to choose not to attend church.

“They’ve either been burned out, burned by the church, something’s going on there.”

The question remains, are those Christians who don’t attend church different than those that do? Studies show the answer is yes.

“When these two types of evangelicals begin to answer questions about what they believe about politics and how they actually behave as individuals, there are remarkable differences.”

Studies show that family values are negatively affected by a lack of church attendance. Some even indicate that it is actually worse to live in a home with parents who claim to be Christian but don’t attend church than it is to live in a home that is completely secular.

“Those families have the highest rates of child and spousal abuse in America; they are more abusive than mainline Christians and are more abusive than secular people. For some reason, there’s something going on there that makes them worse human beings.”

On the other hand, the best place to be raised in America is an evangelical family where both parents attend church regularly.

“Even though they supposedly hold the same common beliefs, their actual behavior and social and political beliefs can be radically different.”

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