{"id":3237,"date":"2013-04-12T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2013-04-12T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:45:24","slug":"church-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Church Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, Kathy Keller, wife of famous pastor Timothy Keller, wrote an article despising church shopping: \"...high on my list of odious phrases.\".<\/p>\n<p>I cannot disagree that this phrase could be treated as a concept of consumerism. Finding the perfect church.<\/p>\n<p>However, her article failed to provide an alternative means of finding a suitable church: \"<em><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365787682671_20710\">It is therefore important that any prospective new member of a local church (or even a fully assimilated long-time member, for that matter) be cognizant of the core values of the body with which they are affiliating\/ed.<\/span><\/em>\", which was as much as she could say.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I can make a new phrase for this. A proper one. Church testing? Church examining? Church finding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, Kathy Keller, wife of famous pastor Timothy Keller, wrote an article despising church shopping: \"...high on my list of odious phrases.\". I cannot disagree that this phrase could be treated as a concept of consumerism. Finding the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3237\">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-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}