{"id":42357,"date":"2014-01-31T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_congregations_expect_to_grow_but_few_parish_members_invite_oth\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T16:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:14:59","slug":"church_times_congregations_expect_to_grow_but_few_parish_members_invite_oth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42357","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Congregations expect to grow, but few parish members invite others to worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one quarter of Anglicans who responded to a Church Times survey are in the habit of inviting people to church.<\/p>\n<p>Just 27 per cent of laypeople responding to a questionnaire agreed with the proposition: &#8220;I often invite other people to come to my church&#8221;; 56 per cent disagreed. Six per cent agreed with the proposition: &#8220;I would never invite anyone to come to my church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, lay people continue to be optimistic about church growth: 40 per cent believed that their church would grow in the next 12 months; 42 per cent were uncertain, and only 18 per cent said that it would not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/31-january\/news\/uk\/congregations-expect-to-grow-%E2%80%94-but-few-invite-others\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one quarter of Anglicans who responded to a Church Times survey are in the habit of inviting people to church. Just 27 per cent of laypeople responding to a questionnaire agreed with the proposition: &#8220;I often invite other people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42357\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,175,162,389,199,440,184,108,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42357","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=42357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}