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Appropriate topics for this portion of our guide include places of worship and ministries in Muskegon, Michigan.

According to a recent survey, 30.0% of Muskegon respondents cited an affiliation with a religion. This compares with 41.9% of Michigan respondents, and 49.4% of those in the United States.

Of these, the Catholics were the most prominent, and they were followed closely by the Presbyterians, and more distantly by the Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, Episcopalians, and Mormons, while just over four percent cited an affiliation with various non-denominational churches or with Protestant or Anabaptist denominations that were not a part of the survey. Just under one percent were affiliated with Islam and approximately one-tenth of a percent cited Judaism.

Other topics related to faith, religion, and spirituality in Muskegon, Michigan would also be suitable for this category. These terms are used synonymously in some contexts but, in others, they are individual words with unique definitions.

Faith is used as a reference to a strong belief, usually including trust and obedience in a deity or worldview. Religion is an organized set of beliefs, often including doctrines and creeds. Examples are the Christian religion or the religions of Islam and Judaism. Spirituality is the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul, as opposed to material or physical things. Christian spirituality generally involves the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life.

 

 

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