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Correction to Previous Post, 4.5% of Professing Christians in Metro Vancouver

I wanted to make a correction to the statistics on my previous post. My friend Pastor Ted Ng clarified a small misunderstanding I had in the statistics. 33% of people in metro Vancouver, population 2.6 million people, say they are a Christian of one stripe or another; that statistic I got right. 

15% of those 2.6 million people, the overall population of metro Vancouver [not 15% of the 33% (858,000 people) as stated in the post] put into practice some form of their faith. And 1.5% of the overall population, 2.6 million people in Metro Vancouver (again, not of the 33% of professing Christians), attend church weekly. 

Doing the math, what this means is that 4.5% of professing Christians in Metro Vancouver attend church services on a weekly basis, still a minuscule percentage, but all things being equal,… the Title of the post should have been “4.5% of professing Christians in Metro Vancouver.” 

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Mike is 54-years-old and has been married to his beloved wife Tanya since 1995. Together they have three terrific children, a much-loved foster son and “foster” daughter-in-law, an adored Bernedoodle Otis and cat Leo. Mike has been the lead pastor of Grace Vancouver Church in Canada since 2013. In 2017, Mike completed his Doctor of Ministry work on faith, vocation, belonging and place.

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Mike is 54-years-old and has been married to his beloved wife Tanya since 1995. Together they have three terrific children, a much-loved foster son, “foster” daughter-in-law, an adored Bernedoodle Otis and cat Leo. Mike has been the lead pastor of Grace Vancouver Church in Canada since 2013. In 2017, Mike completed his Doctor of Ministry work on faith, vocation, belonging and place.

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“Eudaimonia” is a word from classical Greek that is generally attributed to Aristotle and means “human flourishing.” When Jesus tells us in John 10:10 that He came that we might have “life to the full,” that is eudaimonia. When Jeremiah tells the exiles to seek the peace and prosperity of the city (and pray for it), that is eudaimonia (Jer. 29:7). When the kings of the earth bring their glory to the heavenly city illumined by the glory of the Son, that is eudaimonia (Rev. 21:24). When the peoples of this earth know justice, goodness, forgiveness, reconciliation and the blessings of God that reach as far as the curse is found, we will all know eudaimonia. Eudaimonia is mostly about restored relationships and joyful reunions. The unbridled joy of my bride seeing our son for the first time in six weeks after seeing him off to university, captures a moment of eudaimonia.

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