{"id":3707,"date":"2018-06-20T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2018-06-20T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:05:50","slug":"economy-up-church-attendance-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"ECONOMY UP &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; CHURCH [ATTENDANCE] DOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 911, churches were full&#8212;for a short time.<\/p>\n<p>Then we recovered&#8212;from both 911 and full churches.<\/p>\n<p>America got back on our feet&#8212;and we didn&#8217;t need God so much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Congress sang &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; on the Capital steps&#8212;then the Democrat convention booed God, loudly.<\/p>\n<p>The economy had a heart attack in 2008&#8212;and some reconsidered the &#8220;security&#8221; piled in their retirement savings portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Then experts and financial advisors figured out how to &#8220;fix&#8221; it and &#8220;prevent&#8221; it and make people believe it so we can&#8217;t get hurt again&#8212;and everybody jumped back into the American retirement dream.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hard Times&#8212;Need God.<\/p>\n<p>Good Times&#8212;Not So Much.<\/p>\n<p>In God We Trust&#8212;God Bless America.<\/p>\n<p>Undeniable ?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps, more accurately:<\/p>\n<p>In God We Trusted&#8212;God Blessed America.<\/p>\n<p>Indisputable!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What about today?<\/p>\n<p>Economy up, way up&#8212;Churches falling over each other like dominoes, waffling before the twisted distortions of lgbt, immigration, social pressure, and watering down the Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I say again, &#8220;It will get harder to be a Christian in America&#8212;but it will become easier to tell who is a Christian.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 911, churches were full&#8212;for a short time. Then we recovered&#8212;from both 911 and full churches. America got back on our feet&#8212;and we didn&#8217;t need God so much anymore. Congress sang &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; on the Capital steps&#8212;then the Democrat convention booed God, loudly. The economy had a heart attack in 2008&#8212;and some reconsidered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-political-cultural","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}