{"id":50273,"date":"2015-06-13T02:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T02:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_are_americans_leaving_evangelicalism_or_just_shedding_denominational_la\/"},"modified":"2015-06-13T02:55:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T02:55:06","slug":"cnn_are_americans_leaving_evangelicalism_or_just_shedding_denominational_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50273","title":{"rendered":"(CNN) Are Americans leaving evangelicalism or just shedding denominational labels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s largest evangelical denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, announced this week that their membership fell for the eighth straight year in 2014. But as I recently explained, American Christianity, particularly evangelicalism, is neither dead nor dying.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous evangelical denominations, though, and many are thriving. The Assemblies of God, the second-largest evangelical denomination in the United States, reported their 25th year of growth this week.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there is a correct perception that many evangelical denominations are declining, even as the number of evangelicals overall is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three ways to square that statistical circle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/12\/living\/stetzer-christian-nones\/index.html\">Read it all<\/a> from Ed Stetzer.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s largest evangelical denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, announced this week that their membership fell for the eighth straight year in 2014. But as I recently explained, American Christianity, particularly evangelicalism, is neither dead nor dying. There are numerous<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50273\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,419,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50273","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-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50273","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=50273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}