{"id":32792,"date":"2022-09-10T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-55-do-americans-believe-worship-services-should-be-entertaining\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:23:25","slug":"episode-55-do-americans-believe-worship-services-should-be-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-55-do-americans-believe-worship-services-should-be-entertaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 55: Do Americans Believe Worship Services Should Be Entertaining?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4249\"> http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP59_KEEPASKING.mp3<\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download<\/p>\n<p> The State of Theology study was conducted in 2018 and sponsored by Ligonier Ministries. This is the third time we have conducted the study with Ligonier. We ask Americans about biblical beliefs and heresies to see how many people agree with each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><br \/> The Lifeway Research team discusses American views on whether or not churches must provide entertaining worship services in order to be effective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>37% of Americans agree<\/li>\n<li>Young adults are more likely to agree than disagree that worship services need to be entertaining in order to be effective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The team also discusses American views on whether or not Christians should be silent on issues related to politics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13% of Americans <em>strongly<\/em> agree<\/li>\n<li>Among those with evangelical beliefs, 74 percent disagree that Christians should be silent on issues related to politics (62 percent of all Americans disagree)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be sure to Tweet your questions and comments to us: @LifewayResearch and individually: @smcconn, @statsguycasey, and @lizettebeard. Join us next time for another edition of Keep Asking.<\/p>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  22 Vital Stats for Ministry in 2022  Americans Less Optimistic About Race Relations  More Pastors Endorsing Candidates Apart From Church Role  Americans Hold Complex, Conflicting Religious Beliefs, According to Latest State of Theology Study <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com\/podcasts\/keepasking\/EP59_KEEPASKING.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window &#8211; Download The State of Theology study was conducted in 2018 and sponsored by Ligonier Ministries. This is the third time we have conducted the study with Ligonier. We ask Americans about biblical beliefs and heresies to see how many people agree with each. Summary The Lifeway Research team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/episode-55-do-americans-believe-worship-services-should-be-entertaining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 55: Do Americans Believe Worship Services Should Be Entertaining?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}