{"id":35,"date":"2004-10-08T18:50:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T23:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.ragedied.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2004-10-08T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T23:50:24","slug":"what-is-the-church-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/2004\/10\/08\/what-is-the-church-really\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Church really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the little congregation that i am a part of, i realize that it embodies our tribe&#8217;s &#8216;expression of&#8217; and &#8216;connection to&#8217; the body of Christ, otherwise known as &#8220;the Church&#8221;. Our individual relationship to Jesus, at least in some measure, is fleshed out in our connection to one another. God has brought us together at <a href=\"http:\/\/bluer.org\">bluer<\/a>(my church) for a purpose, He has bonded us for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Do I ever sit and ponder the mystic wonder of that? Do I really embrace the truth of it&#8230; honor the holiness of it?<\/p>\n<p>I feel blessed to be a part of bluer and the community around it and really believe that what we are doing there is &#8220;the Church&#8221;. Is it a perfect reflection of Christ? Not likely, but bluer is, if i can speak for my brothers and sisters, a heartfelt and honest expression of our devotion to God.<\/p>\n<p>This pondering is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/cgi-bin\/bible?passage=ROM%2B12&#038;showfn=on&#038;showxref=on&#038;language=english&#038;version=NASB&#038;x=12&#038;y=11\">Romans, chapter 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the little congregation that i am a part of, i realize that it embodies our tribe&#8217;s &#8216;expression of&#8217; and &#8216;connection to&#8217; the body of Christ, otherwise known as &#8220;the Church&#8221;. Our individual relationship to Jesus, at least in some measure, is fleshed out in our connection to one another. God has brought us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pNDf-z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}