{"id":20396,"date":"2010-06-16T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_southern_baptists_meet_trying_to_combat_stagnation\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:11:48","slug":"rns_southern_baptists_meet_trying_to_combat_stagnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20396","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Southern Baptists Meet, Trying to Combat Stagnation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt urged members of the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination to move beyond their comfort zones as they seek new ways to evangelize and combat declining baptism rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tired of having my membership in a convention that\u2019s declining,\u201d\u009d he said in a presidential address on the opening day of the Southern Baptists\u2019 annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday (June 15).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tired of not putting the priority in reaching teenagers for Jesus Christ. I\u2019m tired of being hammered over and over again about money instead of the mission in Jesus\u2019 name. Let\u2019s get a compelling vision that people would want to give more money to.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=16231\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt urged members of the nation\u2019s largest Protestant denomination to move beyond their comfort zones as they seek new ways to evangelize and combat declining baptism rates. \u201cI\u2019m tired of having my membership in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20396\">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":[42,422,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptists","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396","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=20396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}