{"id":7270,"date":"2016-10-15T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T01:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2016-10-15T21:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T01:05:35","slug":"the-3-idols-today-by-tim-keller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7270","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Idols Today, by Tim Keller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/gospelrelevance.com\/2015\/05\/04\/tim-keller-on-idols-in-western-churches-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>on Tim Keller's discussion and his book <em>Counterfeit Gods<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Experience<\/li>\n<li>Doctrine<\/li>\n<li>Consumerism*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The first two are very apt. The last one, consumerism, may only be applied to megachurches or declining churches. It is really not a Christian phenomenon. If there's a need to talk about consumerism in a church, the pulpit already has a problem. In fact, all that the article listed on this can reflect the pastors\/leaders of the church. Of course, these leaders' natural answer is: None of my business, I've already done my part. That is the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on Tim Keller's discussion and his book Counterfeit Gods: Experience Doctrine Consumerism* The first two are very apt. The last one, consumerism, may only be applied to megachurches or declining churches. It is really not a Christian phenomenon. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7270\">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-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270","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=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7271,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}