Faith Statistics

The members of a church in the USA chose at random 80 names from the telephone directory. Then the leader of the church asked the church to pray for those people for 90 days. At the same time he asked them, to select another 80 names from the telephone directory of the town by random. This second list of names was knowingly put aside and nobody prayed for these people. After 90 days all of these 160 people were contacted personally by phone by members of the church. They were asked, if they agreed that Christians could call round and pray for them. The astonishing (or perhaps not astonishing) result was this: Only one person from the list that was not prayed for was willing to receive the visit. From the list of names who were prayed for during 90 days 69 were willing to receive a visit from Christians. 45 of them even invited the Christians in their house, offered them coffee and were willing to name particular prayer requests.