{"id":31365,"date":"2012-03-15T01:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T01:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ben_boruff-young_people_the_salvation_of_the_methodist_church_and_assumpti\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T01:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T01:45:37","slug":"ben_boruff-young_people_the_salvation_of_the_methodist_church_and_assumpti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31365","title":{"rendered":"Ben Boruff&#8211;Young People, the Salvation of the Methodist Church and Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Many of the frequent quotes on hears among Methodists these days] &#8230;in some way, [are] responses to the question, \u201cCan young people save the Church?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Whether vocalized or not, this question permeates United Methodist dialogue about membership decline, denominational vitality and the state of young people in an ever-changing world. Many of our conversations about these topics are well-intentioned attempts to answer this question.<\/p>\n<p>But the question of whether or not young people can save the Church is not effective, because it is based on inaccurate assumptions about young people and membership decline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umportal.org\/article.asp?id=8680\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Many of the frequent quotes on hears among Methodists these days] &#8230;in some way, [are] responses to the question, \u201cCan young people save the Church?\u201d\u009d Whether vocalized or not, this question permeates United Methodist dialogue about membership decline, denominational vitality<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31365\">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":[48,39,42,440,360,437,435,154,184,436,108,110,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31365","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-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-religion-culture","category-teens-youth","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365","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=31365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}