{"id":40581,"date":"2013-10-17T01:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/good_news_8_reasons_most_churches_never_break_the_200_attendance_mark\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T01:48:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:48:18","slug":"good_news_8_reasons_most_churches_never_break_the_200_attendance_mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40581","title":{"rendered":"(Good News)  Steve Beard &#8211;8 Reasons Most Churches Never Break the 200 Attendance Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carey Nieuwhof is not a United Methodist. Nope, he\u2019s the pastor of Connexus Community Church in Ontario, Canada which is part of a network of churches that have been influenced by Andy Stanley\u2019s North Point Ministries. And yet, he\u2019s a voice we should be listening to because again and again Carey posts pithy articles on church leadership and evangelism that are worth thinking about. Today (which you have have already read) he unpacked the 8 reasons most churches never break the 200 in attendance mark:<\/p>\n<p>You know why most churches still don\u2019t push past the 200 mark in attendance?<br \/>\nYou ready?<br \/>\nThey organize, behave, lead and manage like a small organization.<br \/>\nThink about it.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a world of difference between how you organize a corner store and how you organize a larger supermarket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodnewsmag.org\/2013\/10\/8-reasons-most-churches-never-break-the-200-attendance-mark\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carey Nieuwhof is not a United Methodist. Nope, he\u2019s the pastor of Connexus Community Church in Ontario, Canada which is part of a network of churches that have been influenced by Andy Stanley\u2019s North Point Ministries. And yet, he\u2019s a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40581\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,440,360,154,184,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581","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=40581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}