{"id":12180,"date":"2022-04-12T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2022-04-12T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:03:42","slug":"reasons-i-leave-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12180","title":{"rendered":"Reasons I leave a church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After careful consideration, this is my conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason I would leave a church that I've been with around for a while, is the same reason I have applied in the past: When the hindrance of proper evangelism becomes obvious, that the very church is the cause of it, it is time for me to leave that church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Chinese churches, the hindrance is usually in the context of \u5229\u5bb3\u5173\u7cfb;<br>With American churches, the hindrance is usually in the context of Americanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gospel-centeredness is the beating heart of a church, without it, the church heads towards senility, if not mutation or destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After careful consideration, this is my conclusion: The reason I would leave a church that I've been with around for a while, is the same reason I have applied in the past: When the hindrance of proper evangelism becomes obvious, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12180\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}