{"id":43761,"date":"2014-10-12T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=43761"},"modified":"2014-11-01T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:08:14","slug":"flat-screen-preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/flat-screen-preachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Screen Preachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/E2vpVg-0fR8\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Mega Churches recently, the churches\u00a0where there is a single leader who is the principal figure of not only the main congregation, but of all the satellite\u00a0congregations, with their sermons being broadcast each week to those remote sites.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I came across a video from the Evangelical show &#8220;Wretched&#8221;, discussing that very question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2vpVg-0fR8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>10\/15\/2014 Update:<\/strong> Mark Discroll has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/us\/45784-mark-driscoll-resigns-from-mars-hill-church\" target=\"_blank\">resigned<\/a>\u00a0from Mars Hill Church, the mega church found in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>10\/01\/2014 Update:<\/strong> Mars Hill is now officially\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/slices\/mars-hill-church-will-close-its-doors-good\" target=\"_blank\">dissolving<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about Mega Churches recently, the churches\u00a0where there is a single leader who is the principal figure of not only the main congregation, but of all the satellite\u00a0congregations, with their sermons being broadcast each week to those remote sites. A few days ago, I came across a video from the Evangelical show &#8220;Wretched&#8221;, discussing that very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2792,578],"class_list":["post-43761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-mega-church","tag-sermon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49004,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions\/49004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}