{"id":29464,"date":"2011-11-22T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_inver_grove_heights_minnesota_a_church_for_those_who_never_liked_church\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:50:31","slug":"in_inver_grove_heights_minnesota_a_church_for_those_who_never_liked_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29464","title":{"rendered":"In Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, a church for those who never liked church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As members walk into the movie theater or auditorium for services, the pastor and his wife are in the front row, singing along and pumping their fists to loud pop music, played by a live band featuring electric guitars.<\/p>\n<p>Suburban megachurches, move over. There&#8217;s a hipper game in town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know a lot of people have left their mainline churches because it&#8217;s boring,&#8221; said Tory Farina, 31, lead pastor at High Point Church in Inver Grove Heights. &#8220;They felt they were forced to go. We want them to love it&#8230;.Our Sunday services feel like a concert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>High Point, which currently meets in an Inver Grove Heights movie theater, is a small portion of an exploding religious movement in the Twin Cities and nationally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_19317332\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As members walk into the movie theater or auditorium for services, the pastor and his wife are in the front row, singing along and pumping their fists to loud pop music, played by a live band featuring electric guitars. Suburban<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29464\">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":[48,39,42,440,183,154,184,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464","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=29464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}