{"id":7872,"date":"2023-12-21T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2023-12-21T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T16:11:18","slug":"christians-and-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7872","title":{"rendered":"Christians and Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/christians-and-generosity\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/christians-and-generosity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cState of the Bible: USA twenty twenty-three\u201d research from the American Bible Society found that ninety-five percent of practicing Christians say they donated to charity in twenty twenty-two, compared to fifty-one percent of non-Christians. Practicing Christians also donated more money on average than non-Christians. According to the research, to be a practicing Christian, a person has to \u201cidentify as Christian, attend church at least once a month, and consider their faith very important in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Generosity should certainly characterize someone who says they are a Christian. It\u2019s encouraging to see research confirms this is happening. Families are the primary teachers of the next generation when comes to financial stewardship and generosity which should include regular giving to a church, as well as investing in other charitable organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/christians-and-generosity\/ The \u201cState of the Bible: USA twenty twenty-three\u201d research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}