A recent survey has shown that evangelical Christians give nine times as much to charity as the average householder, giving more than 12 per cent of their net income in donations each year.
The survey also revealed that evangelicals in Britain are also more generous than their American counterparts, who give 10 per cent of their income to charity each year, reports The Times. Evangelical Christians in Britain also have three times the average household savings, the survey showed, as well as either only a tiny fraction of the debt or no debt at all.
The survey was conducted by Christian Research for the Kingdom Bank, set up by Assemblies of God, an international Pentecostal church, to offer banking with a “Christian ethos”. “This survey shows that the more people are taught about giving, the more they give,” wrote Bill Lattimer, of Christian Research, in the report.
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