{"id":15512,"date":"2009-10-14T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times-california_christians_worship_in_a_big_way\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T03:00:25","slug":"la_times-california_christians_worship_in_a_big_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15512","title":{"rendered":"LA Times&#8211;California Christians worship in a big way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Sunday faithful have packed the cavernous sanctuary at Shepherd of the Hills Church in the San Fernando Valley, clapping and swaying for Jesus as a band rocks the hall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come bless the Lord,&#8221; the worshipers sing. &#8220;Praise his name to the ends of the Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most churches would be thrilled to fill their sanctuaries any day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd of the Hills, a nondenominational church in Porter Ranch, does it six times a weekend, attracting 8,000 people to its energetic services and offering a lesson about the growth of evangelical Christianity in California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-megachurches11-2009oct11,0,7157465,full.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Sunday faithful have packed the cavernous sanctuary at Shepherd of the Hills Church in the San Fernando Valley, clapping and swaying for Jesus as a band rocks the hall. &#8220;Come bless the Lord,&#8221; the worshipers sing. &#8220;Praise<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15512\">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":[48,42,419,183,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512","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=15512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}