{"id":14,"date":"2004-07-21T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2004-07-21T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T21:26:10","slug":"christian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Christian Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them.&#8221;  &#8211;Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/p>\n<p>I ran across this quote in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/article.php?sid=4110\">article by Kristen McNulty<\/a>.   I found it quite convicting and thought I would share it.  All too often I have been just a pew warmer in a church.  Even now, when I am actively involved with the worship team at church, I still feel as if I am missing something when it comes to our Christian community here.  While there are several people I have met and am friendly with, and a few I would actually consider &#8220;friends&#8221;, there are many more that I have not made much of an effort to get to know.  I am too comfortable inside my little box.  I wonder how many other pew warmers we have at church that would get involved if they simply felt accepted and welcomed as part of our community by myself and other &#8220;regulars&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them.&#8221; &#8211;Dietrich Bonhoeffer I ran across this quote in an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}