{"id":3909,"date":"2017-11-17T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2017-11-11T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T15:05:36","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-17-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f1t7c\" data-offset-key=\"9qf18-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9qf18-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9qf18-0-0\">&#8220;The Book of James states &#8220;Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead&#8230;&#8221; A recent Pew research study found &#8220;&#8230;52% of Orthodox adults in the United States say religion is very important to them, 31% report that they attend church weekly or more, and 57% say they pray daily.&#8221; That compares to 6% and 18% in Russia and Eastern Europe. In short, the vast majority of Orthodox Christians do not practice their faith. And we wonder why the Church doesn&#8217;t grow?&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f1t7c\" data-offset-key=\"5sa1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5sa1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5sa1-0-0\">(Quote from an Orthodox Christian)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"5sa1-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3910\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/south-africa-cape-town-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/south-africa-cape-town-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/south-africa-cape-town-768x480.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/south-africa-cape-town-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/south-africa-cape-town.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Book of James states &#8220;Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead&#8230;&#8221; A recent Pew research study found &#8220;&#8230;52% of Orthodox adults in the United States say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}