{"id":2323,"date":"2010-10-05T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2010-10-05T19:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:07:15","slug":"a-timid-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/10\/05\/a-timid-church\/","title":{"rendered":"A timid church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been pondering that a lot. Have we become a timid church?&#8221; Hanson asked the ELCA leaders.\u00a0 A sign of a timid church is one that describes itself by what it has lost and what it lacks, he said.\u00a0 Such a church is one that tries to hold onto the past and preserve what was, Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>A church that defines itself by controversies and partisan divisions &#8220;will become a weary and timid church,&#8221; Hanson said.\u00a0 A timid church has lost confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to work through the gospel, he said.\u00a0 The presiding bishop also said he is &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; that leaders preach with a sense of confidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Who-We-Are\/Our-Three-Expressions\/Churchwide-Organization\/Communication-Services\/News\/Releases.aspx?a=4648\">ELCA Presiding Bishop Tells ELCA Leaders it&#8217;s Time to Move Forward &#8211; News Releases &#8211; Evangelical Lutheran Church in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering that a lot. Have we become a timid church?&#8221; Hanson asked the ELCA leaders.\u00a0 A sign of a timid church is one that describes itself by what it has lost and what it lacks, he said.\u00a0 Such a church is one that tries to hold onto the past and preserve what was, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/10\/05\/a-timid-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A timid church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76,97],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-growth","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}