{"id":2580,"date":"2018-02-06T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:05:47","slug":"us-christianity-is-not-shrinking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"US Christianity is not shrinking &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"US Christianity is not shrinking - 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2018\/01\/how-should-churches-respond-to-the-new-findings-about-american-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Veith provides further analysis<\/a> of the new findings that US Christianity is not declining but moderate denominations are. Believers with \u201cintense\u201d faith are restless. What should churches do? Veith points to the need for churches to evangelize their own members. With which gospel? Not that of an infallible church, an inerrant scripture, or infallible feelings. <a title=\"Forde On Being a Post-Liberal Lutheran\" href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/FordepostliberalLutheran.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Forde points the way<\/a> for post-liberal Lutherans to the only \u201ctrue concreteness and \u2018objectivity\u2019 in the church.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Veith provides further analysis of the new findings that US Christianity is not declining but moderate denominations are. Believers with \u201cintense\u201d faith are restless. What should churches do? Veith points to the need for churches to evangelize their own members. With which gospel? Not that of an infallible church, an inerrant scripture, or infallible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}