{"id":1755,"date":"2006-11-13T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:34:34","slug":"authentic-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/authentic-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanolog.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/relevant-interview-with-erwin-mcmanus.html\">Thomas<\/A> writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of my fav teachers :: <a href=\"http:\/\/erwinmcmanus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erwin McManus<\/a> :: is interviewed on <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/god_article.php?id=7241\">relevantmagazine.com<\/span> &#8211; check it out! Heres some quotes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>I have a huge sense of concern, because a lot of the postmodern conversation seems to be incredibly self-indulgent. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how do I connect to God?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how do I create an authentic community for me and my Christian friends?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It seems that the questions are wrong. We keep asking, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do we create postmodern churches?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than asking, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do we serve and reach the postmodern world?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;\/\/&#8230;I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people. For me, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do what I do because I have to. As well, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make my life choices because I worried about judgment or anything like that. For me, my whole motivation in life is love. And ironically, <strong>I know a lot of people think that to be irreligious means that they cuss a lot or drink a lot, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where we are finding our freedom. But actually, what is happening is we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re finding safe ways to be risky. If you really want to be risky, do something that is genuinely valuable and risky at the same time.<\/strong> I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to smoke a cigar to feel fully alive. I felt fully alive when I was in the middle of the Hezbollah.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting thoughts. Comments? Questions? Problems with what McManus is saying? Do you feel the same about Christianity today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas writes: One of my fav teachers :: Erwin McManus :: is interviewed on relevantmagazine.com &#8211; check it out! Heres some quotes&#8230; I have a huge sense of concern, because a lot of the postmodern conversation seems to be incredibly self-indulgent. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how do I connect to God?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how do I create an authentic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/authentic-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authentic community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}