{"id":5376,"date":"2017-01-12T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2017-01-12T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:03:18","slug":"theology-related-quote-for-the-day-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5376","title":{"rendered":"Theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ve read for some time about <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the coming tsunami of church closures<\/span> and now at least one state convention has a program and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">staff person whose responsibility includes \u201cserving interested churches that are near closing<\/span> and helping find creative solutions like mergers, cooperatives with other churches, or even utilization of property for church planting.\u201d Sad to see but I\u2019m glad there is a resource person in this area for churches to utilize. A sub-plot in this church closure\/merger business is will be megachurches grabbing the assets of dying or dead churches for their real estate value.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SbcVoices\/~3\/Po0B6SjQ0GU\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Thornton<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good.  All of Christian teaching rests upon Original Sin, the deranged teaching that to be born human is to be born depraved, guilty, under a <i>just<\/i> sentence of eternal torture.  Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve read for some time about the coming tsunami of church closures and now at least one state convention has a program and staff person whose responsibility includes \u201cserving interested churches that are near closing and helping find creative solutions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5376\">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\/5376"}],"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=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}