{"id":40427,"date":"2017-03-10T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40427"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:42:27","slug":"evangelical-pastor-reaching-religiously-unaffiliated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/03\/evangelical-pastor-reaching-religiously-unaffiliated.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An Evangelical Pastor on Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40428\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/1_Manhattan_New_York_City-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40428\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40428\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/1_Manhattan_New_York_City-1.jpg\" alt=\"A nice and quaint little religious village\" width=\"596\" height=\"336\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Keller\u2019s parish (Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/an-evangelical-pastor-on-reaching-the-religiously-unaffiliated_us_58bd8c8be4b05cf0f4021625\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/an-evangelical-pastor-on-reaching-the-religiously-unaffiliated_us_58bd8c8be4b05cf0f4021625<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We live in an increasingly disconnected and secular world, and we need to improve our methods of dealing with it and of\u00a0sharing the Gospel in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long thought that there might be much for Latter-day Saints to learn from Timothy Keller\u2019s success in New York City. \u00a0I\u2019ve read one of his books and a few other things that he\u2019s written, and hope to read more. \u00a0I hope that a few others are looking, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/an-evangelical-pastor-on-reaching-the-religiously-unaffiliated_us_58bd8c8be4b05cf0f4021625 \u00a0 We live in an increasingly disconnected and secular world, and we need to improve our methods of dealing with it and of\u00a0sharing the Gospel in it. \u00a0 I\u2019ve long thought that there might be much for Latter-day Saints to learn from Timothy Keller\u2019s success in New York City. \u00a0I\u2019ve read one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;An Evangelical Pastor on Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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