{"id":94,"date":"2010-04-18T20:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marklydecker.wordpress.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-08-14T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:58:51","slug":"reconsidering-life-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Reconsidering Life Stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave a Comment about how your church handles this:\u00a0 Last Friday, \u00a0Dr Timothy Paul Jones of SBTS spoke\u00a0at College Metro\u00a0on transitioning church youth from HS to college.\u00a0 He made some great points!\u00a0 Here is the first set of observations about how churches (unwittingly) may be viewing\u00a0 their ministry to the various life stages.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Churches view Children as a way to\u00a0get and secure stable familes into the organization.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Churches view Youth as a way to get and secure stable families into the congregation AND because of the idolatry of adolescense.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Churches view Unmarried Adults as a way to retain and fulfill stabilization into the organization.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Churches view Families as stable servants and givers to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Churches view Older Adults as required toleration because they offer financial stablity to the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave a Comment about how your church handles this:\u00a0 Last Friday, \u00a0Dr Timothy Paul Jones of SBTS spoke\u00a0at College Metro\u00a0on transitioning church youth from HS to college.\u00a0 He made some great points!\u00a0 Here is the first set of observations about how churches (unwittingly) may be viewing\u00a0 their ministry to the various life stages. 1.\u00a0 Churches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[53],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}