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The National Ad Health Study used advanced methods to show that teens who go to church are less likely to use marijuana, drink, or smoke.

Strong, strong decline in that.

Long-term U.S.

household data shows that regular attenders give three to four times more to charity each year than non-attenders, around 3,000 versus $700 a year.

So church ends up shaping our generosity.

You become a more generous person.

You keep that open-hand mentality.

Because you're trained to be generous.

You're trained to give.

We look at the gospel story as Jesus gave everything, gave his life for us.

And so there's a byproduct.

So folks who are in church are way more generous.

700 for the average person, 3,000 a year in charitable donation for the churchgoer.

A 2022 study in the journal Nature found that communities with more cross-class friendships, and this is me, like poor and I'm around folks that are wealthy, poor and I'm around men that are stable.

So communities with more cross-class friendships, often built in churches, have much higher rates of upward mobility for poor kids.

So just access to a mentor, just access to a Bible study leader that's financially stable, and I'm coming from welfare, more opportunities for upward mobility.

I could keep going, man.

There's so many.

Let's talk about tithing.

what is it where did it come from should we be doing it yeah so so the tithe is an old testament law uh primarily around agriculture and it wasn't just 10 it was probably around 23 and it's talking about hey that the first the first fruits that are coming in you should be giving to those um the what groups the first fruits that are from your crops you're talking about an agricultural society so as they're uh getting grain and all that sort of stuff they're tithing off of their grain um and they're also they're they'd also take care of the priests