{"id":55906,"date":"2016-10-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_pivot_the_astonishing_power_of_small_churches_three_reasons_weve_missed_\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:01:00","slug":"ct_pivot_the_astonishing_power_of_small_churches_three_reasons_weve_missed_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55906","title":{"rendered":"(CT Pivot) The Astonishing Power of Small Churches: Three Reasons We\u2019ve Missed This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can one billion people be doing something without the world standing up to take notice?<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, how can one billion people be doing something within a very narrowly defined niche, and the leaders in that niche not value it?<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s what has happened in the church world.<\/p>\n<p>Over one billion people choose to worship Jesus in small churches. Yet virtually every book on how to do church implies that this is a problem to be fixed, rather than an opportunity to take advantage of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/karl-vaters\/2016\/october\/astonishing-power-of-small-churches-reasons-missed-this.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can one billion people be doing something without the world standing up to take notice? More specifically, how can one billion people be doing something within a very narrowly defined niche, and the leaders in that niche not value<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55906\">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":[48,39,50,209,437,435,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55906","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=55906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}