{"id":1381,"date":"2015-06-16T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2015-06-16T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:46:51","slug":"attendence-at-sbc15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Attendence at #SBC15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The annual meeting of the SBC has begun in Columbus, Ohio, with 4,482 registered messengers.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SBC15?src=hash\">#SBC15<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SBC2015?src=hash\">#SBC2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lonnie Wilkey (@lonniewilkey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lonniewilkey\/status\/610787573678485504\">June 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is interesting.  The Convention claims it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1310\" target=\"_blank\">46,499-churches<\/a>, meaning fewer than 1-in-10 Southern Baptist churches has sent a messenger to the year&#8217;s BIG EVENT.  And, since churches can actually send more than 1-messenger, according to the amount of their annual contribution to World Headquarters, and many doubtless did, the truth is probably that only 1 in 15- to 20-churches actually sent a Messenger.  Intentionally or not, it&#8217;s become a club for the large churches.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, the guys running the show up there at the podium aren&#8217;t hearing a peep about how they&#8217;ve wrecked the brand name.  Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual meeting of the SBC has begun in Columbus, Ohio, with 4,482 registered messengers.#SBC15 #SBC2015 &mdash; Lonnie Wilkey (@lonniewilkey) June 16, 2015 This is interesting. The Convention claims it has 46,499-churches, meaning fewer than 1-in-10 Southern Baptist churches has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}