All figures refer to the United States unless otherwise specified.
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| A1. Amount spent on entertainment and recreation
A2. Amount spent on state lottery tickets A3. Amount spent on pets A4. Amount spent on jewelry A5. Amount given to all overseas ministries (denominational, interdenominational, independent) A6. Amount required to lift the world’s poorest one billion people out of extreme poverty A7. Additional amount required to supply primary education to every child in the world A8. Amount required to bring clean water to most of the world’s poor A9. Additional amount required to provide basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world |
AA. $65 billion
AB. $6 billion AC. $58 billion AD. $65 billion AE. $31 billion AF. $13 billion AG. $705 billion AH. $5 billion AI. $9 billion |
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| B1. Percent of American households who tithe
B2. Percent of American evangelicals who tith B3. Percent of church revenues sent to overseas missions |
BA. 5%
BB. 2% BC. 24% |
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| C1. Additional money that would be given if all American churchgoers tithed
C2. Total U.S. government foreign assistance budget C3. Amount that would be left over if all American churchgoers tithed; and if that money were used to eliminate the most extreme poverty on the planet for a billion people, provide universal primary education, bring clean water to most of the world, and provide basic health and nutrition for everyone in the world |
CA. $39.5 billion
CB. $168 billion CC. $75 billion |
| Wasn’t that fun? Well, maybe not. You don’t have to know anything at all to see that the answer to C3 is at least $39.5 billion. Maybe more. If American churchgoers all tithed, we could do all that completely independent of government.
Answers to be provided no later than June 27 (now posted here). Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World by Richard Stearns, pp. 216-218 |
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I’m sorry I missed my own June 20 deadline for providing the answers. I’m out of town now without the source material, so it will be a few more days yet.
Finally: The answers.