{"id":31966,"date":"2012-04-14T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_how_to_run_a_megachurch_with_lots_of_help\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T21:04:25","slug":"ap_how_to_run_a_megachurch_with_lots_of_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31966","title":{"rendered":"(AP) How to run a megachurch? With lots of help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On just about any Sunday, as many as 10,000 people may fill the pews of The Potter&#8217;s House, Bishop T.D. Jakes&#8217; Dallas-area megachurch. Believers say he has an uncanny way of connecting with his audience anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter about the size,&#8221; says Faith Johnson, a 13-year member. &#8220;It&#8217;s almost like nobody else is in that church, but me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It takes some help for leaders of the largest megachurches and national ministries to make believers reject the idea that a smaller church is more intimate and personable. A big staff of associate pastors and elders is indispensable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/04\/11\/2230995\/how-to-run-a-megachurch-with-lots.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On just about any Sunday, as many as 10,000 people may fill the pews of The Potter&#8217;s House, Bishop T.D. Jakes&#8217; Dallas-area megachurch. Believers say he has an uncanny way of connecting with his audience anyway. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31966\">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":[48,42,419,154,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31966","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=31966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}