{"id":15852,"date":"2009-11-01T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pastors_grow_congregations_via_satellite_broadcast_of_worship\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:04:41","slug":"pastors_grow_congregations_via_satellite_broadcast_of_worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15852","title":{"rendered":"Pastors grow congregations via satellite broadcast of worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[\/i] It&#8217;s just before 11:30 on a Sunday morning, and at a nondescript strip mall on Main Street in Hendersonville it&#8217;s about time for church.<\/p>\n<p>In the parking lot, volunteers welcome latecomers with cups of free coffee. Inside a converted office suite turned worship space, a countdown clock on a video screen reaches zero, and the band breaks into song.<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds, the Rev. Craig Groeshel appears on a video screen, beaming his satellite message to the crowd, because he is almost 500 miles away in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to LifeChurch.tv \u201d\u201d one of the biggest churches in America. [\/i]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20091022\/NEWS01\/910220358\/Pastors+grow+congregations+via+satellite+broadcast+of+worship\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[\/i] It&#8217;s just before 11:30 on a Sunday morning, and at a nondescript strip mall on Main Street in Hendersonville it&#8217;s about time for church. In the parking lot, volunteers welcome latecomers with cups of free coffee. Inside a converted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15852\">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":[48,39,183,184,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","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=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}