{"id":42964,"date":"2014-03-08T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_singapores_megachurches_move_to_export_the_propserity_gospel\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T21:00:21","slug":"reuters_singapores_megachurches_move_to_export_the_propserity_gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42964","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Singapore&#39;s megachurches move to export the propserity gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God is here, God is here,&#8221; croons Singapore church official Sun Ho as she struts across a neon-lit stage and thousands of people in the congregation pump their hands and sing along.<\/p>\n<p>Kong Hee, the church&#8217;s founding pastor and Sun Ho&#8217;s husband, then takes the stage. In keeping with the electrifying mood, he invites his followers to speak &#8220;in tongues&#8221; and a pulsing murmur echoes through the auditorium of 8,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>During the service, ushers hand out envelopes for donations, which consume at least a tenth of the salaries of most church members, going to fund different ministries, mission trips and special events.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to one of Asia&#8217;s most profitable churches: Singapore&#8217;s City Harvest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/03\/06\/us-singapore-megachurches-idUKBREA2509Y20140306\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God is here, God is here,&#8221; croons Singapore church official Sun Ho as she struts across a neon-lit stage and thousands of people in the congregation pump their hands and sing along. Kong Hee, the church&#8217;s founding pastor and Sun<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42964\">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":[48,39,50,201,184,108,490,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-singapore","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964","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=42964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}