{"id":4112,"date":"2014-06-14T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:12:41","slug":"4112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"TOO BIG TO FAIL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.zmescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/superchurch.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>When it comes to churches, I used to believe bigness was neutral.\u00a0 Big churches can be loving, small ones can be unloving.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so sure anymore.\u00a0 Not about big churches being loving and small ones being unloving, but about bigness being neutral.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing bigness does is what smallness almost never does: makes one think they must have everything right.\u00a0 Otherwise, why are so many following us? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>American evangelicalism is sadly littered with examples of charismatic personalities with little accountability and the attendant belief that they are simply &#8220;too big to fail.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to churches, I used to believe bigness was neutral.\u00a0 Big churches can be loving, small ones can be unloving.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so sure anymore.\u00a0 Not about big churches being loving and small ones being unloving, but about bigness being neutral. \u00a0 One thing bigness does is what smallness almost never does: makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-church"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}