{"id":15030,"date":"2009-09-17T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today-biggest_u-s-_churches_contemporary_evangelical\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T17:01:28","slug":"usa_today-biggest_u-s-_churches_contemporary_evangelical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15030","title":{"rendered":"USA Today&#8211;Biggest U.S. churches &#39;contemporary, evangelical&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new reports on the size and strength of American congregations present contrasting pictures of church life today.<\/p>\n<p>The October issue of Outreach magazine is all about growth. It lists the 100 largest U.S. churches, based on attendance statistics gathered by LifeWay Research, Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the list, as in 2008, is Joel Osteen&#8217;s Lakewood Church, Houston; 43,500 attend weekend worship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-09-16-church-growth_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new reports on the size and strength of American congregations present contrasting pictures of church life today. The October issue of Outreach magazine is all about growth. It lists the 100 largest U.S. churches, based on attendance statistics gathered<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15030\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,42,66,419,363,360,154,155,184,417,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelicals","category-lutheran","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}