{"id":1997,"date":"2007-01-29T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-01-31T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:07:39","slug":"walking-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/walking-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/cool_ideas_poll.html\">Churchmarketingsucks.com<\/A> has released the results of their latest poll.<\/p>\n<p>According to the site&#8217;s readers, walking the walk is the #1 means of church promotion.<\/p>\n<p>That even tops a give away a church recently did with Chipotle.<\/p>\n<p>The poll does underscore our constant refrain that Christians who do what they&#8217;re supposed to do are the best marketing ever.<\/p>\n<p>How do we encourage folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\">encounter<\/A> our your church to do that?<\/p>\n<p><i>Dear friends, do you think you&#8217;ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, &#8220;Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!&#8221; and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhere does that get you? Isn&#8217;t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense? &#8211; James 2:14-17<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churchmarketingsucks.com has released the results of their latest poll. According to the site&#8217;s readers, walking the walk is the #1 means of church promotion. That even tops a give away a church recently did with Chipotle. The poll does underscore our constant refrain that Christians who do what they&#8217;re supposed to do are the best &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/walking-the-walk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walking the walk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[2959,2996,2512,2995],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-church-marketing","tag-lifestyle-evangelism","tag-poll","tag-walk-the-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-wd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}