{"id":32266,"date":"2022-09-10T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/single-christians-congregate-on-the-coasts\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:02:48","slug":"single-christians-congregate-on-the-coasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/single-christians-congregate-on-the-coasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Christians Congregate on the Coasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">Reynaldo Brigantty photo &#8211; Pexels<\/div>\n<p><em>By Aaron Earls<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If all the single Christians put their hands up, there would be a lot of raised hands in New York City and Boston.<\/p>\n<p>New analysis from Barna found the 10 American cities with the highest percentage of single (never married) practicing Christians and the 10 cities with the highest percentage of married practicing Christians.<\/p>\n<p>For those looking to find a single person who identifies as a Christian, attends church at least once a month, and says their faith is very important to them, they should start at the coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Around a third (32 percent) of practicing Christians in New York and Boston are single.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to those two, other coastal cities with a higher portion of never married Christians include Miami (30 percent), Washington DC (27 percent), San Francisco (26 percent) and Los Angeles (26 percent).Las Vegas is the most inland city among the top 10 highest concentrations of single Christians (28 percent).<\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0;clear: both'> <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/div>\n<p>Christians who live in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest are more likely to be married.<\/p>\n<p>In Lansing, Michigan, more than 8 in 10 practicing Christians are married (81 percent). The marriage population percentage is almost as high in Toledo, Ohio (79 percent) and Boise, Idaho (78 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Texas is the only state with a city on both lists. Austin ranked high with 76 percent of practicing Christians being married, while the practicing Christians in the Brownsville area are 27 percent single.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-profile-box square gb-has-avatar gb-font-size-18 gb-block-profile gb-profile-columns\">\n<div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-avatar-wrap\">\n<div class=\"gb-profile-image-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-content-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Aaron Earls<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gb-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">@WardrobeDoor<\/p>\n<div class=\"gb-profile-text\">\n<p>Aaron is a writer for LifewayResearch.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"gb-social-links\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#333333;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px\">Dig Deeper at Lifeway.com<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"one-third first\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"two-thirds\">\n<h3>Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life<\/h3>\n<p>Barry Danylak<br \/>  FIND OUT MORE <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<div style=\"clear:both;margin-top:0em;margin-bottom:1em\">\n<div class=\"centered-text-area\">\n<div class=\"centered-text\" style=\"float: left\">\n<div class=\"u79916b8284cb9015df505e12de8c22bf-content\">See also&nbsp; 8 Ways to Persevere in Ministry<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctaButton\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  Young Adults, Including Christians, Have Complicated Relationship with Money  The Places Where No One Knows a Christian  Breaking Barriers: Ethnic Minority Churches Persevere Through COVID Challenges  The Vanishing Bible Belt: The Secrets Southern Churches Must Learn to Stay Healthy <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reynaldo Brigantty photo &#8211; Pexels By Aaron Earls If all the single Christians put their hands up, there would be a lot of raised hands in New York City and Boston. New analysis from Barna found the 10 American cities with the highest percentage of single (never married) practicing Christians and the 10 cities with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/single-christians-congregate-on-the-coasts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Single Christians Congregate on the Coasts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}