{"id":66,"date":"2014-12-18T21:42:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:42:23","slug":"do-churches-today-water-down-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Do churches today water down the gospel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think that churches today water down the gospel, or sugarcoat their message in an effort to keep the pews full?\u00a0 Churches, like any other institution, have financial obligations, and need revenue to meet those obligations.\u00a0 Those resources come from parishioners, or attendees.\u00a0 Church attendance is dropping.\u00a0 As this occurs, churches may become very mindful of the message they deliver.\u00a0 Messages that don&#8217;t meet the approval of the congregation may result in a\u00a0reduced\u00a0attendance, and diminished resources.\u00a0 Should churches be sensitive to the congregation at the risk of teaching a diluted or inaccurate form of the gospel, and thus put the eternal life of the congregation at risk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think that churches today water down the gospel, or sugarcoat their message in an effort to keep the pews full?\u00a0 Churches, like any other institution, have financial obligations, and need revenue to meet those obligations.\u00a0 Those resources come from parishioners, or attendees.\u00a0 Church attendance is dropping.\u00a0 As this occurs, churches may become very&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=66\">Read more <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-church-business","category-the-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}