{"id":81322,"date":"2019-05-09T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81322"},"modified":"2019-05-09T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T23:05:18","slug":"northern-echo-leaders-find-72-reasons-why-church-of-england-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81322","title":{"rendered":"(Northern Echo) Leaders find 72 reasons why Church of England is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Thorpe said: \u201cThe Church of England is a church that can grow and so we want to be encouraging churches to think about how they can grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This whole program is about taking a step back, working with church leaders to see how can we be part of a strategy in the Diocese to begin to invest in growth, rather than in some of the decline that we\u2019ve seen, and that\u2019s a challenge. But there are churches that are good at growing and we want to get right behind that and see it happen more and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/local\/teesvalley\/17624885.leaders-find-72-reasons-why-church-of-england-is-growing\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Thorpe said: \u201cThe Church of England is a church that can grow and so we want to be encouraging churches to think about how they can grow. &#8220;This whole program is about taking a step back, working with church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81322\">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":[389,440,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81322","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=81322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81323,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81322\/revisions\/81323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}