{"id":49767,"date":"2015-05-12T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_ed_stetzer-how_the_church_can_reach_nominals_and_seculars\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:00:20","slug":"ct_ed_stetzer-how_the_church_can_reach_nominals_and_seculars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49767","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Ed Stetzer&#8211;How the Church Can Reach Nominals and Seculars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us were trained to minister to a culture that had a Christian baseline, but we weren\u2019t trained how to reach people who don\u2019t accept the Bible as true or know about Christ.<br \/>\nIn other words, we were trained to focus on Nominals but now we increasingly need to reach Seculars.<\/p>\n<p>There are resources to help with that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a big fan of Tim Keller\u2019s book The Reason for God. Many use that curriculum for reaching secular people. I also recommend the work of George Hunter, a professor at Asbury Theological Seminary. His book How to Reach Secular People is good, as is James Emery White\u2019s book called The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated.<\/p>\n<p>Do you deal more with Nominals or Seculars? Has your church made progress in reaching either group? What have you found that works in bringing these people to Christ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2015\/may\/how-church-can-reach-nominals-and-seculars.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us were trained to minister to a culture that had a Christian baseline, but we weren\u2019t trained how to reach people who don\u2019t accept the Bible as true or know about Christ. In other words, we were trained<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49767\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,175,440,437,435,155,184,108,424,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49767","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-anthropology","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49767","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=49767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}