{"id":27460,"date":"2011-07-25T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/carl_medearis-why_evangelicals_should_stop_evangelizing\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:25:02","slug":"carl_medearis-why_evangelicals_should_stop_evangelizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27460","title":{"rendered":"(CNN belief Blog) Carl Medearis&#8211;Why evangelicals should stop evangelizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may come as a surprise to many Christians that Muslims are generally open to studying the life of Jesus as a model for leadership because they revere him as a prophet.<\/p>\n<p>But now that I\u2019m no longer obsessed with converting people to Christianity, I\u2019ve found that talking about Jesus is much easier and far more compelling.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that doctrine is important, but it\u2019s not more important than following Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus met people where they were. Instead of trying to figure out who\u2019s \u201cin\u201d\u009d and who\u2019s \u201cout,\u201d\u009d why don\u2019t we simply invite people to follow Jesus \u201d\u201d and let Jesus run his kingdom?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/24\/my-take-why-evangelicals-should-stop-evangelizing-2\/?hpt=hp_c2\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may come as a surprise to many Christians that Muslims are generally open to studying the life of Jesus as a model for leadership because they revere him as a prophet. But now that I\u2019m no longer obsessed with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27460\">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":[48,39,42,419,440,119,161,182,154,155,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-globalization","category-inter-faith-relations","category-missions","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460","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=27460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}