{"id":26188,"date":"2011-05-15T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thom_rainer_-where_have_all_the_churches_gone\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:41:09","slug":"thom_rainer_-where_have_all_the_churches_gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26188","title":{"rendered":"Thom Rainer &#8211;Where Have All the Churches Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest church in the United States is Akron Baptist Temple in Akron, Ohio. Okay, it was the largest church in 1969. I haven\u2019t seen the church on any lists of largest churches for at least two decades.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the primary metric for measuring church size in 1969 was Sunday school attendance. Today the metric is worship attendance.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of changes in churches take place in just a few years. For many, if not most, American churches, the changes are more negative than positive. Many churches today are shadows of what they were not too many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Where have all the churches gone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomrainer.com\/2011\/05\/where-have-all-the-churches-gone.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest church in the United States is Akron Baptist Temple in Akron, Ohio. Okay, it was the largest church in 1969. I haven\u2019t seen the church on any lists of largest churches for at least two decades. By the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26188\">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":[48,39,50,209,133,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188","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=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}