{"id":9273,"date":"2021-12-16T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9273"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:00:24","slug":"how-to-determine-a-churchs-spiritual-vitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9273","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO DETERMINE A CHURCH&#8217;S SPIRITUAL VITALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My good friend, Tim, asked me how I determine the spiritual vitality of a church. There are many important questions to ask, but the two below have always cut through the fog for me. They have never failed in giving me a good idea of a church\u2019s true health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*<em>What does your church\u2019s ministry of prayer look like?<\/em> How does the weekly schedule show its priority? How many attend? What is prayed about? Is there a godly desperation manifest in the prayers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*<em>Is there an emphasis on comprehensive discipleship\/Christian formation?<\/em> Does it address a full-orbed list of areas like aging and apologetics, theology of work and missions, etc.?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend, Tim, asked me how I determine the spiritual vitality of a church. There are many important questions to ask, but the two below have always cut through the fog for me. They have never failed in giving me a good idea of a church\u2019s true health. *What does your church\u2019s ministry of [&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":[106,62,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-discipleship","category-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273","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=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}