Have you ever heard the stat that when a man comes to Christ in 93% of cases his family

follows but when a woman comes to Christ it's only in 17% that the husband and kids follow

I've heard that a lot I've heard it from a lot of people but you know what I've never heard is an actual citation of where that study came from.

Hello I'm Sheila Ray Greguar from baremarriage.com where we like to talk about healthy

evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

And today on the Bear Marriage Podcast,

I am going to invite two amazing scholars on

to talk about how this stat got started, is there a source for it, and what are the bigger ramifications

with the fact that it is being cited everywhere?

Now some of you may not have heard it, so before I invite them on I would like to play

for you some clips of all kinds of different people citing this source.

I don't have a clip for this one but Daniel Aiken who is the president of South Eastern Baptist Seminary a theological seminary he talked about it in an article way back I think in like 2001 or something and I will I will put that

link in the podcast notes I'll put links for everything that I'm about to share in the

podcast notes there's there's quite bit. But here let's start with

J.D. Greer, who was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention at

the time where he said this. So let's listen to him, cite this stat.

A recent study shows that if a child is the first one to come to faith in Christ and a family,

then there is a 3.5% chance that everybody else in the household is going to get saved. It's going to follow.

If it's the mother that is the first one to come to faith in Christ, there is a 17% chance that

everyone else in the family will come to faith in Christ.

If the father is the first one to come to faith in Christ, there is a, get this,

93% chance that everybody else in the family is going to come to faith in Christ.

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