Today is Wednesday, January 18th, 2012; Karen's Korner #2238

By now, readers are probably getting the idea that I don't always 'tune in' a radio broadcast or television show. Sometimes I get in the middle of them, when I am driving or when I am moving through the remote offerings.
 
It happened to me again last week when I landed in the middle of a Dr. David Jeremiah television broadcast. I don't know the name of his message nor the name of the book from which he was quoting.
 
He was mentioning that sometimes our words and those we repeat, without knowing the facts, but can discourage us.
 
Here were a couple:
 
 
" People today aren't as interested in attending church as they are choosing instead, going to sporting events!"
 
FACT:  "Each Sunday in the United States, 102 million people attend church. Annually, 94 million people attend all professional sporting events combined.
 
Did you catch that? Per week verses per year!
 
 
* Young people just don't attend church today. It's all older people."
 
FACT:  "For every 100 people between the ages of 70 - 79; there are 170 people attending church in the United States  who are between the ages of 20 - 29."
 
 
He had a list of facts like that. Very positive; not those that we tend to repeat from one to another - without necessarily knowing the true numbers. (I'll have to confess:  I am one of those 'repeaters'.)
 
If you want to verify those couple of items, you'll have to contact Dr. David Jeremiah and his ministry. I was just a 'stop by' viewer.

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