{"id":39521,"date":"2013-08-12T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_assemblies_of_god_defies_denominational_decline\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:22:49","slug":"rns_assemblies_of_god_defies_denominational_decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39521","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Assemblies of God defies denominational decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assemblies of God, a denomination rooted in rural and small town America, appears to have leaped into the 21st century with dramatic results.<\/p>\n<p>At its General Council meeting this week (Aug. 5-9), the denomination touted its formula for defying the seemingly irreversible decline of other religious groups: contemporary music, arts and high-tech quality communication, outreach to young people, immigrants and ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The denomination reported a 1.8 percent increase in U.S. membership to 3 million adherents. Globally, the gain was 1.5 percent, to 66 million, making it the largest Pentecostal group in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/08\/09\/assemblies-of-god-defies-denominational-decline\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assemblies of God, a denomination rooted in rural and small town America, appears to have leaped into the 21st century with dramatic results. At its General Council meeting this week (Aug. 5-9), the denomination touted its formula for defying<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39521\">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":[39,50,42,209,154,420,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-other-churches","category-pentecostal","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39521","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=39521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}