{"id":811,"date":"2013-10-28T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:04:58","slug":"a-thermometer-does-not-improve-your-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/a-thermometer-does-not-improve-your-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"A thermometer does not improve your comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing your church&#8217;s spiritual temperature to match the world outside doesn&#8217;t make visitors any more comfortable than changing your church&#8217;s thermostat to match the weather outside.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0Martin Luther King Jr., <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/admin\/offices\/dos\/mlk\/letter.html\"><cite>Letter from the Birmingham Jail<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing your church&#8217;s spiritual temperature to match the world outside doesn&#8217;t make visitors any more comfortable than changing your church&#8217;s thermostat to match the weather outside. &#8220;The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}