Ruslan KD

did a whole lecture series on church history and people can look up his series and i could send that over to you guys as well but it breaks down the errors of the church and so around 150 to 200 the moment that it got a little more relaxed under roman occupation and the church could meet in buildings they did meet in buildings for pragmatic reasons we meet in the home but we also meet in large groups and we come together for corporate worship

liturgy the reading of the scriptures encouragement so communion right those things the sacraments so I think I think it's on both I don't think it's either or I think the home church is where you're known and where you're connected but I think the bigger Gathering there's nothing like worshiping with hundreds of other people you know uh we saw Charlie Kirk's Memorial you know and how beautiful was it to see Chris Tomlin up there and my buddy Phil Wickham up there leading worship and

100,000 people singing to Jesus.

There's a beautiful part about corporate gatherings and worship.

Again, just because it's big doesn't mean it's bad.

Can I keep going to some of these stats?

Yeah, keep going.

This is Harvard.

Harvard's Human Flourishing Program found that people who attend church weekly are 30% to 50% less likely to get divorced, and couples who go together are the most stable.

Coming from a broken family, coming from a single parent home.

My wife comes from a single parent home.

The 2008 recession, we got married in 2008 in the middle of the recession.

The church was absolutely the backbone to help us build a stable marriage coming from utter dysfunction.

People talk a lot about the divorce rate, right?

We know the number one correlation to young men going down the dark path is not having the father in the home.

Right.

And what you see amongst churchgoers is they're more likely to stay married, to get married, to stay married, to have healthy marriages.

And I think that's so crucial, you know, is just fathers in the homes with their kids and building solid families and 30 to 50 percent less likely to get divorced.

A lot of good coming out of there.

Yeah.