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2016 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry showed that attending church reduces the risk of developing depression later in life, even after adjusting for prior mental health issues.

Wow.

Right?

How many young people are dealing with incredible levels of anxiety right now?

Astronomical amount.

42 of gen z say that they feel hopeless about the future 47 of gen z is higher amongst women say that they constantly feel anxiety almost all the time damn 47 and i can send all this data to you guys too if you guys want to link it below um

Anxiety is at an all-time high, man.

And I'm not saying these are causations.

I'm not saying these are one-to-one, but I'm saying there's very, very clear correlations of people who are going to church having less rates of depression, less rates of despair, less likely to commit suicide.

I think Nathan actually does go to church from a conversation he had with my friend, I want to say Jeff from Church Disrupted.

So I think he goes to church like once or twice a month.

I'm not sure if he goes regularly, but the idea about the building is interesting.

It's the building, you're right, church is the community, church is the camaraderie.

But church is also the local ecclesia, that word church means local gathering.

It's almost like a governmental term in the original Greek.

So the church gathered in big groups on Solomon's porch outside of the temple, and they gathered in homes.

And then the moment they could gather in buildings, they did.

And that's around 175 AD.

And this is not according to me.

This is, I'm going to butcher his name, but David Guzak, um,