AVERAGE

    A college professor sometime ago through a study of national statistics, discovered that the average
depth of rivers in America is two and one-half feet. Yet he drowned the next year trying to wade across the
Mississippi River. Accepting the average may be dangerous.

    When a person is average, he is just as near the bottom as he is the top. In this light, an average
Christian is subnormal while our Lord redeems us for a nobler kind of living. The average church member
attends one service each week - some weeks.

    If churches were open for the average member, they would operate only on a part time basis.

     To be only an average Christian - is both subnormal and dangerous!

Here are some other thoughts on AVERAGE: 
 
AVERAGE
The average male is: 5' 9" tall and 173 pounds. Is married, 1.8
years older than his wife and would marry her again. Has not
completed college. Earns $28,605 per year. Prefers showering to
taking a bath. Sends about 7.2 hours a week eating. Does not
know his cholesterol count, but it's 211. Watches 26 hours and
44 minutes of TV a week. Takes out the garbage in his household.
Prefers white underwear to colored. Cries about once a
month--one fourth as much as Jane Doe. Falls in love an average
of six times during his life. Eats his corn on the cob in
circles, not straight across, and prefers his steak medium.
Can't whistle by inserting his fingers in his mouth. Prefers
that his toilet tissue unwind over, rather than under, the spool.
Has sex 2.55 times a week. Daydreams mostly about sex. Thinks he
looks okay in the nude. Will not stop to ask for directions when
he's in the car. From Men's Health, quoted in Parade Magazine,
12-29-91, p. 5
On an average day in the USA: 1,169,863 people take a taxi,
176,810,950 eggs are laid, 21,000 gallons of oil are spilled from
tankers and barges, 63,288 cars crash, 28 mailmen are bitten by
dogs, 2 billion $1 bills are in circulation, industry generates
nearly 1 pound of hazardous waste for every person in America,
1.1 million people are in the hospital, the U.S. Postal Service
sells 90 million stamps, handles 320 million pieces of mail and
delivers 833,000 packages, 180,000 people buy new radios, 500
million cups of coffee are drunk, 80 million people hear Muzak,
10,205 people give blood, $54,794 is spent to fight dandruff,
bricklayers lay 22,741,000 bricks, amateurs take 19,178,000
shapshots, 9,077 babies are born, 2,466 children are bitten by
dogs, 5,962 couples wed, every one of us produces nearly 6 pounds
of garbage. from American Averages, 1980, Willian B. Mead and
Myron Feinsilber, Doubleday