Barna is at it again: this time polling American’s to find out what their ideal “American Dream” would look like. The whole idea is interesting: they asked American’s what their ideal life would include. The findings were actually pretty interesting.

Those included having good physical health (listed by 85%), living with a high degree of integrity (also 85%), having one marriage partner for life (80%), having a clear purpose for living (77%), having a close relationship with God (75%), and having close, personal friendships (74%).

That 75% of all people surveyed said having a close relationship with God as a major priority to having an ‘ideal life’ is quite surprising. What is more interesting is that this statistic jumped 5% in the past 8 years. American’s are more interested in having a relationship with God than they were a decade ago. On the other hand: while 75% of people (3 in 4) said being close to God was important, less than half (45%) said being personally active in church was important. I would be interested to ask that remaining 30% how they intend to get close to God without having meaningful relationship with other like-minded people.

All-in-all the trends are positive…check it out yourself

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