{"id":1034,"date":"2007-09-29T20:11:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T01:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2007-11-17T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T00:35:36","slug":"now-what-do-you-think-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Now, what do you think of <em>this<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I asked about whether or not you would welcome &#8220;outside&#8221; teens, that is, teens whose parents were not part of your church. Now, here&#8217;s a more specific question along these same lines. In the most recent issue of <em>Interconnections<\/em>, the newsletter for church leaders put out by the Unitarian Universalist Association, someone writes in to ask:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 16-year-old girl whose parents do not attend our church is attending our Exploring Membership class. She assures us that her parents are OK with this, however I am concerned about allowing someone under the age of 18 to sign our membership book without our knowing what the parents think about it. How do other churches handle these situations?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t include the answer printed in <em>Interconnections<\/em> &#8212; instead, how would <em>you<\/em> answer this question? And if you immediately say that you would let a 16-year-old girl sign the membership book, how young would you go &#8212; if she were ten years old, would that make a difference, and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I asked about whether or not you would welcome &#8220;outside&#8221; teens, that is, teens whose parents were not part of your church. Now, here&#8217;s a more specific question along these same lines. In the most recent issue of Interconnections, the newsletter for church leaders put out by the Unitarian Universalist Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-church","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}