How the church can bless the culture into spiritual awakening
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A report from England relayed that 42 Anglican cathedrals contributed £235 million (roughly $321 million) to their local economies in 2019. That’s evidence of what the church can do to bless others—but, in The Daily Article for September 22, 2021, Ryan Denison argues that the church (especially in the West) could do so much more.
Today's Daily Article was written by Ryan Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | This is a big week for Denison Forum. That's because North Texas Giving Day is |
| 0:24.6 | Thursday, September 23rd. So we want to ask you to please schedule your gift now to help more people |
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| 0:40.3 | This means your gift of $35 will provide 70 people with biblical insight. A gift of $50 will |
| 0:47.6 | reach 100 people, and a generous gift of $75 will reach 150 people with biblical insight. Jesus wants to continue his earthly ministry |
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| 1:27.2 | A recent report out of England found that the country's 42 Anglican cathedrals contributed |
| 1:33.4 | $235 million, roughly $321 million, to their local economies in 2019. |
| 1:42.3 | Among that value included more than 6,000 jobs and volunteer posts, accruing more than |
| 1:48.0 | 900,000 hours of service through food banks, support groups, and various outreach ministries |
| 1:54.7 | to help their respective communities. And such contributions are not unique to Great Britain. In America, faith-based |
| 2:03.6 | groups contribute more than $316 billion in savings to the U.S. economy every year. In addition, |
| 2:11.6 | congregations, religious institutions, and faith-based businesses contribute roughly $1.2 trillion in socioeconomic |
| 2:21.2 | value to the country, which is the equivalent of the world's 15th largest national economy. |
| 2:27.8 | I bring these statistics up, however, not as an opportunity to congratulate ourselves for a job |
| 2:33.7 | well done, but rather to show just a small taste of the potential we have to bless our country and our community |
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