A 2011 Northwestern University study tracking 3,433 men and women for 18 years found that young adults who attend church or a bible study once a week are 50% more likely to be obese. The Pawtucket Heart Health Program found that people who attended church were more likely than non-church members to be 20 percent overweight and have higher cholesterol and blood pressure numbers. Finally, a 2001 Pulpit and Pew study of 2,500 clergy found that 76% were overweight or obese compare to 61% of the general population at the time of the study. The financial crisis that took place in Greece last week is making its way to the American shores because the money isn’t here to take care of our sick. The church has to now deal with its chicken’s coming home to roost and the fact that they are fried chickens! Please share this information amongst your friends because this is the beginning of a war.
Ephesians 6:12 For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. This is my first of many letters but we have 4 real reasons that the Church is the most unhealthy institution in the U.S.
1. Recognition- Everyone is so overweight and out of shape that on Sunday a problem isn’t even seen as a problem. My cousin Malachi Isreal said “Everything in the physical exist also in the spiritual so obesity has to be addressed from a spiritual standpoint as well”. How do you change something that you don’t see as a real problem? The answer is, you can’t. 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. It must be said that there is a serious problem that exist in the body of Christ and I’m either part of the problem or the solution.