{"id":52486,"date":"2015-12-03T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_the_megachurch_boom_rolls_on_but_big_concerns_are_rising_too\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:00:03","slug":"rns_the_megachurch_boom_rolls_on_but_big_concerns_are_rising_too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52486","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) The megachurch boom rolls on, but big concerns are rising too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change is coming to American megachurches \u201d\u201d those behemoths for believers that now dot the religious landscape.<\/p>\n<p>There are more participants in megachurch worship than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast weekend 1 in 10 adults and children who went to a Protestant church went to a megachurch \u201d\u201d about 5 million people,\u201d\u009d said Warren Bird, director of research for Leadership Network and co-author of a megachurch study released Wednesday (Dec. 2).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/12\/02\/megachurch-evangelical-christians\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is coming to American megachurches \u201d\u201d those behemoths for believers that now dot the religious landscape. There are more participants in megachurch worship than ever. \u201cLast weekend 1 in 10 adults and children who went to a Protestant church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52486\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,419,154,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52486","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","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486","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=52486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}