{"id":207,"date":"2008-08-31T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T18:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/messages\/2008\/what-makes-a-church-effective\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:31:47","slug":"what-makes-a-church-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/2008\/what-makes-a-church-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Church Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outline\u2014Ephesians 4:14<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The enemy within\u2014Captive by our own limitations\n<ol class=\"level2\">\n<li>The beginnings of the Christian life\u2014Children <\/li>\n<li>The propensities of children\u2014Instability, lack of self-control, easily misled <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>The enemies without\u2014Capitalizing on our limitations\n<ol class=\"level2\">\n<li>From all directions <\/li>\n<li>Aimed to make us err\u2014Deceive <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Take Home Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Evil has a deliberate policy to undermine the truth. <\/li>\n<li>Discipleship is &quot;job one&quot; of the church. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download Recording<\/h3>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20080831hi.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Broadband<\/a> Connection (Approx. 22 MB)<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20080831lo.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Dial-Up<\/a> Connection (Approx. 2.7 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline\u2014Ephesians 4:14 The enemy within\u2014Captive by our own limitations The beginnings of the Christian life\u2014Children The propensities of children\u2014Instability, lack of self-control, easily misled The enemies without\u2014Capitalizing on our limitations From all directions Aimed to make us err\u2014Deceive Take Home Points Evil has a deliberate policy to undermine the truth. Discipleship is &quot;job one&quot; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}