{"id":796,"date":"2015-05-01T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2015-05-01T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:24:46","slug":"why-churches-dont-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/why-churches-dont-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Churches Don’t Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thom Rainer has a list of 7 reasons why some members of churches don’t want them to grow<\/a>. It’s a pretty good list when even the pastor can say, “Yeah, I get that. Sometimes I feel that way.” For example:<\/p>\n

Loss of memories. I recently heard a poignant story from a lady whose church was demolishing the old worship center to build a new one to accommodate growth. She and her husband were married in the old worship center. She understandably grieved at the loss of that physical reminder of their wedding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Others I don’t find as compelling. My favorite not-a-good-reason is number 5. (Or maybe I should write like a click-bait<\/a> headline: “Number 5 will make you roll your eyes. Again.”)<\/p>\n

If Genesis 11<\/a> is a commentary on people’s refusal to obey the commandment of Genesis 1:28<\/a>, then what is the commentary on people’s refusal to obey the Great Commission<\/a> or John 20:21<\/a> or Acts 1:8<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thom Rainer has a list of 7 reasons why some members of churches don’t want them to grow. It’s a pretty good list when even the pastor can say, “Yeah, I get that. Sometimes I feel that way.” For example: Loss of memories. I recently heard a poignant story from a lady whose church was … Continue reading »<\/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":[],"tags":[15,640,639],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-church","tag-growth","tag-rainer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}