{"id":1682,"date":"2023-05-05T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:08:29","slug":"what-makes-a-healthy-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/what-makes-a-healthy-church\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a healthy church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for May 12, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Post-Pentecost believers in Acts began to meet together as the early church.\u00a0 What motive drew them together, and what seemed to hold them together?\u00a0 What forms of leadership were modeled then that are still appropriate for the church today?\u00a0 How are the needs of the members of a church supposed to be met?\u00a0 What would you say is the purpose of the modern-day church?\u00a0 How is that effectively expressed?\u00a0 What are the most important attributes of a healthy church?\u00a0 What do you look for in a church home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for May 12, 2023. The Post-Pentecost believers in Acts began to meet together as the early church.\u00a0 What motive drew them together, and what seemed to hold them together?\u00a0 What forms of leadership were modeled then that are still appropriate for the church today?\u00a0 How are the needs of the members of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}