{"id":165,"date":"2007-10-26T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2007-10-26T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T21:47:06","slug":"willow-creek-repents-say-it-isnt-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Willow Creek Repents? Say It Isn&#8217;t So&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent this link from Leadership Journal about how Willow Creek did a self study on the effectiveness of their programs in building up spiritually mature people.  The shocking result?  Programs for every type of interest didn&#8217;t do much in growing people more like Jesus or buying into WWJD.  The money built a special interest club.<br \/>\nThe conclusion?  What makes for spiritually mature Christians are healthy relationships with other Christians; frequent prayer and bible study; service to others; and a crazy little thing called love.<\/p>\n<p>And you don&#8217;t need a multi-million dollar building to do it.  In fact, it might even get in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever will we think of next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/outofur\/archives\/2007\/10\/willow_creek_re.html\">Check out the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent this link from Leadership Journal about how Willow Creek did a self study on the effectiveness of their programs in building up spiritually mature people. The shocking result? Programs for every type of interest didn&#8217;t do much in growing people more like Jesus or buying into WWJD. The money built a special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-the-organized-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}