{"id":97,"date":"2005-04-14T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.markporthouse.net\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-05-02T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T22:50:21","slug":"reluctance-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Reluctance to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuart Murray’s ‘Post-Christendom’ has got me thinking!<\/p>\n

I wonder if there is reluctance to change in the church for this reason:
If dramatic change takes place, anyone who is in a position of power or influence in the church (or ‘a’ church) is likely to find themselves on a level with others, without an advantage. They would find themselves beginners again, unfamiliar with their newly deconstructed\/reconstructed environment.<\/p>\n

Does this mean that such people might resist change? I wonder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stuart Murray’s ‘Post-Christendom’ has got me thinking! I wonder if there is reluctance to change in the church for this reason:If dramatic change takes place, anyone who is in a position of power or influence in the church (or ‘a’ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-emerging","category-justice","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}