{"id":6952,"date":"2016-05-03T21:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:54:56","slug":"redeemer-presbyterian-church-losing-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6952","title":{"rendered":"Redeemer Presbyterian Church Losing Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this RISE program <a href=\"http:\/\/Each new Rise pledge made by May 7 will receive a $2,700 match\u2014up to $2.7M!\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>: Each new Rise pledge made by May 7 will receive a $2,700 match\u2014up to $2.7M!<\/p>\n<p>First, it was Tim Keller announcing his future role, which I don't see how it fits biblically.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this Rise thing. With all the hype about gift matching, frankly now I am not clear what is the goal of Rise. Is it a donation competition? see if we can raise the highest funds? or something else?<\/p>\n<p>Thus far there are still a good number of reformed theologically trained speakers on staff. That is the hope and prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this RISE program says: Each new Rise pledge made by May 7 will receive a $2,700 match\u2014up to $2.7M! First, it was Tim Keller announcing his future role, which I don't see how it fits biblically. Now, this Rise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6952\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}