{"id":720,"date":"2014-02-15T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2014-02-15T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:43:48","slug":"quick-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/15\/quick-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No duh: a study concludes that <a href=\"http:\/\/christianstandard.com\/2014\/02\/deep-impact-the-cultural-challenge-of-biblical-illiteracy\/\">clergy key reason worshipers switch congregations<\/a>. (There&#8217;s a joke that pastors tell about this: when a person leaves a congregation, it&#8217;s the pastor&#8217;s fault. When the pastor leaves the congregation, it&#8217;s six people&#8217;s fault.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m flabbergasted at how controversial the mere idea of church growth is, to people who joined a small church. I wish they&#8217;d read things like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministrymatters.com\/all\/article\/entry\/4683\/disciple-multiplication-is-the-main-thing\">Disciple multiplication is the main thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some implications of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianstandard.com\/2014\/02\/deep-impact-the-cultural-challenge-of-biblical-illiteracy\/\">The Cultural Challenge of Biblical Illiteracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/buzzvine\/new-official-movie-poster-for-son-of-god-features-crown-of-thorns-no-jesus-photo-113957\/\">art for the upcoming Son of God movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How does your state rate on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/buzzvine\/most-and-least-religious-states-in-america-where-does-your-state-rank-chart-113962\/\">scale from most- to least-religious, according to Gallup<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Using the<a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2014\/02\/12\/use-the-concierge-model-for-excellent-hospitality-in-your-women-s-ministry\"> Concierge Model for Excellent Hospitality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Willimon reviews a <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ministrymatters.com\/all\/article\/entry\/4703\/review-why-salvation\">book that advocates theological reading of Scripture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I need to correspond more. Here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministrymatters.com\/all\/blog\/entry\/4745\/10-tips-on-writing-a-good-letter\">advice about writing letters<\/a> that I could follow.<\/p>\n<p>Feel-good story: Englishman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/buzzvine\/see-wwii-heros-tearful-reaction-when-surprised-by-dozens-he-saved-from-nazi-death-camp-video-114108\/\">reunited with dozens he saved from Nazi death camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No duh: a study concludes that clergy key reason worshipers switch congregations. (There&#8217;s a joke that pastors tell about this: when a person leaves a congregation, it&#8217;s the pastor&#8217;s fault. When the pastor leaves the congregation, it&#8217;s six people&#8217;s fault.) I&#8217;m flabbergasted at how controversial the mere idea of church growth is, to people who &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/15\/quick-links\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tab-sweep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}