{"id":2180,"date":"2007-03-04T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:39:27","slug":"state-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/state-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a buzz in the air at encounter. I do believe everyone&#8217;s looking forward to the &#8220;State of the church address&#8221; today. Brian plans to answer the question, &#8220;Where do we go from here?&#8221; this morning during his message. I&#8217;m excited. I really believe that I&#8217;m right where God wants me right now, including at encounter. I&#8217;ll be getting married in less than two months to the most amazing woman you&#8217;ll ever meet, I&#8217;ve just started a new job with Ellis County and I&#8217;m working with the church on the media team and heading up our new focus on community groups. I can&#8217;t wait to see where God takes us (and me) next.<br \/>\nHere are just a few of the things coming up&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter1.jpg' title='encounter1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter1.jpg' alt='encounter1.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter2.jpg' title='encounter2.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter2.jpg' alt='encounter2.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter3.jpg' title='encounter3.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter3.jpg' alt='encounter3.jpg' \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter4.jpg' title='encounter4.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter4.jpg' alt='encounter4.jpg' \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter5.jpg' title='encounter5.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/encounter5.jpg' alt='encounter5.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\/ezine\/March4-07.htm\">Read the full newsletter<\/span> (pay no attention to the picture of the goofy guy halfway down the page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a buzz in the air at encounter. I do believe everyone&#8217;s looking forward to the &#8220;State of the church address&#8221; today. Brian plans to answer the question, &#8220;Where do we go from here?&#8221; this morning during his message. I&#8217;m excited. I really believe that I&#8217;m right where God wants me right now, including at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/state-of-the-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of the church<\/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":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-za","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}