{"id":37733,"date":"2013-04-09T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_evangelicals_push_immigration_path\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:16:43","slug":"wsj_evangelicals_push_immigration_path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37733","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Evangelicals Push Immigration Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior pastor Kenton Beshore said the first sermons on the plight of illegal immigrants didn&#8217;t go over well with many members of his evangelical church, which sits on a 50-acre campus in Orange County and has a 3,400-seat sanctuary, sports facilities, restaurant and a man-made lake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We took a hit on it,&#8221; said Mr. Beshore. &#8220;We had people who walked out and whose giving went away.&#8221; It was part of the reason the church ended 2012 with a $500,000 budget shortfall, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But much has changed in the two years since\u201d\u201dboth at Mr. Beshore&#8217;s 14,000-member Mariners Church and at conservative evangelical congregations around the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324883604578399023366575766.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior pastor Kenton Beshore said the first sermons on the plight of illegal immigrants didn&#8217;t go over well with many members of his evangelical church, which sits on a 50-acre campus in Orange County and has a 3,400-seat sanctuary, sports<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37733\">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":[39,40,42,419,147,114,154,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-immigration","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733","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=37733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}