{"id":5484,"date":"2019-05-15T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyonleadership.brentwoodbaptistonline.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2019-05-15T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T18:00:23","slug":"loneliness-killing-people-well-shortening-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/adult-discipleship\/loneliness-killing-people-well-shortening-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness is Killing People . . . well, Sorta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to kickoff a series about loneliness as one of the major contemporary curses in our community. A meta-analysis study published in 2015 show an increased likelihood of mortality of 29% for social isolation, 26% for loneliness, and 32% for living alone.<sup>1<\/sup> <strong>Loneliness is actually shortening lives<\/strong>.<br \/>\nReflect on Acts 2.46 as you read the statistics below: \u201cEvery day they devoted themselves to meeting TOGETHER in the temple, and broke bread from HOUSE to HOUSE.\u201d From a Cigna survey of more than 20,000 adults ages 18 and older concerning loneliness measured against the UCLA Loneliness Scale:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling lonely or left out;<\/li>\n<li>One in four Americans rarely or never feel as though there are people who really understand them;<\/li>\n<li>Two in five Americans sometimes or always feel that their relationships are not meaningful and that they are isolated from others;<\/li>\n<li>One in five people report they rarely or never feel close to people or feel like there are people they can talk to;<\/li>\n<li>Only around half of Americans have meaningful in-person social interactions on a daily basis;<\/li>\n<li>Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation.<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Groups are the remedy<\/strong>. The church has been designed to do community better than any other \u201cinstitution\u201d in history. We\u2019re created for it; liberated for it; and empowered for it through the work of our Triune God. Begin praying about battling loneliness in your neighborhood.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>1. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, Mark Baker, Tyler Harris, David Stephenson, &#8220;Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review,&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Perspectives on Psychological Science\u00a0<\/em>10, 2 (2015). Accessed\u00a0https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1745691614568352?journalCode=ppsa on May 15, 2019.<\/h6>\n<h6>2. Ellie Polack, &#8220;Research Puts Spotlight on the Impact of Loneliness in the U.S. and Potential Root Causes.&#8221; Accessed\u00a0https:\/\/www.cigna.com\/newsroom\/news-releases\/2018\/new-cigna-study-reveals-loneliness-at-epidemic-levels-in-america on May 15, 2019.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I wanted to kickoff a series about loneliness as one of the major contemporary curses in our community. A meta-analysis study published in 2015 show an increased likelihood of mortality of 29% for social isolation, 26% for loneliness, and 32% for living alone.1 Loneliness is actually shortening lives. 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