{"id":23553,"date":"2010-12-21T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rick_ezell_five_significant_facts_about_church_and_firsttime_guests\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:11:20","slug":"rick_ezell_five_significant_facts_about_church_and_firsttime_guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23553","title":{"rendered":"Rick Ezell: Five Significant Facts about Church and First\u201d\u201cTime Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy and growing churches pay close attention not only to their members but also to those who are not yet a part of the flock. New people are the lifeblood of a growing church. We want to ensure that nothing impairs or cuts off the flow of new people to the church.<\/p>\n<p>[Parish clergy]&#8230; need to be aware of five significant facts about first-time guests looking for a church home&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivpress.com\/onlinepulpit\/articles\/2008-12.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy and growing churches pay close attention not only to their members but also to those who are not yet a part of the flock. New people are the lifeblood of a growing church. We want to ensure that nothing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23553\">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":[48,440,437,435,184,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553","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=23553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}