{"id":2835,"date":"2007-08-27T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T02:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:32:03","slug":"local-churches-dont-appeal-to-many-ministry-minded-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/local-churches-dont-appeal-to-many-ministry-minded-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Local churches don&#8217;t appeal to many ministry minded students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Baptist Press and <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/religion.beloblog.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/local_church_not_so_appealing.html\">DMN<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ministerial students want to serve God, but not necessarily in local church<br \/>\nBy Ken Camp<br \/>\nPublished August 24, 2007<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS (ABP) &#8212; College students who feel called to work in ministry want to make a difference for God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kingdom. But a significant number don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the local church is the place to do it, according to guidance directors for ministerial students at some Baptist schools.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that for both positive and negative reasons, a lot of young people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see themselves settling into local-church ministry positions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Omer Hancock, professor of church ministry and director of in-service guidance at Hardin-Simmons University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Logsdon School of Theology. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An increasing number of our students are gravitating to other areas &#8212; other expressions of ministry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nTo some degree, students are looking for other avenues of ministry because of controversy within the churches, Hancock said.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The reality is that for the entire lifetime of these young people, they have grown up in a culture where there is a lot of church conflict and a lot of denominational conflict,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/religion.beloblog.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/local_church_not_so_appealing.html\">Read the full article<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Baptist Press and DMN: Ministerial students want to serve God, but not necessarily in local church By Ken Camp Published August 24, 2007 DALLAS (ABP) &#8212; College students who feel called to work in ministry want to make a difference for God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kingdom. But a significant number don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the local church is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/local-churches-dont-appeal-to-many-ministry-minded-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local churches don&#8217;t appeal to many ministry minded students<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-JJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","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=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10835,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/10835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}