{"id":1556,"date":"2012-11-17T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2012-11-17T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:55:33","slug":"how-do-you-measure-up-the-success-of-an-evangelistic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/how-do-you-measure-up-the-success-of-an-evangelistic-event\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you measure up the success of an evangelistic event?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we had the second part of our six part series &#8220;Passerelles vers Dieu&#8221;. We would have loved to have a crowd of unbelievers. But we were five, and everyone was from the church. Was the evening a success? Yes, it was.<\/p>\n<p>We watched the video and discussed the themes. We thought about our contemporaries, the meaning of life&#8230; It was helpful to see how each one perceived the world we lived in. It ended up more like an &#8220;experience meeting&#8221;, in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist tradition where people discussed their own experience of life and the world, and we tried to apply a biblical worldview to it.<\/p>\n<p>There were no unbelievers, and that was a bit disappointing. But it was still a great evening. We talked a bout serious life issues, and I hope this was helpful to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we had the second part of our six part series &#8220;Passerelles vers Dieu&#8221;. We would have loved to have a crowd of unbelievers. But we were five, and everyone was from the church. Was the evening a success? Yes, it was. We watched the video and discussed the themes. We thought about our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/how-do-you-measure-up-the-success-of-an-evangelistic-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do you measure up the success of an evangelistic event?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}