{"id":54302,"date":"2016-05-08T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-dispatch_fired_megachurch_preacher_in_st-_louis_illustrates_familiar_j\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T01:00:36","slug":"post-dispatch_fired_megachurch_preacher_in_st-_louis_illustrates_familiar_j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54302","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Dispatch) Fired megachurch preacher in St. Louis illustrates familiar journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shepherding a megachurch is tied in many ways to America\u2019s celebrity culture. There\u2019s a push for big-stage events and around-the-clock access through social media to a pastor\u2019s life and thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a formula that amplifies the message and multiplies the flock, in congregants who show up on Sunday for worship and in tens of thousands more followers online.<\/p>\n<p>High visibility can also set pastors on a correction-course with humility that evangelical Christians call getting right with Jesus&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/fired-megachurch-preacher-in-st-louis-illustrates-familiar-journey\/article_1139eb16-3ec6-54fd-83b3-e17b67c69357.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shepherding a megachurch is tied in many ways to America\u2019s celebrity culture. There\u2019s a push for big-stage events and around-the-clock access through social media to a pastor\u2019s life and thoughts. It\u2019s a formula that amplifies the message and multiplies the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54302\">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":[48,39,42,168,419,435,154,184,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302","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=54302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}