{"id":2438,"date":"2007-05-21T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:41:56","slug":"reaching-out-with-high-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reaching-out-with-high-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching out with high gas prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are driving less than they used to.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2007-05-17-gas-prices_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a> reports that the average American motorist has significantly cut back on their driving in the last 18 months for the first time in 25 years.<br \/>\nPeople are actually following through with their plans to reduce driving as gas prices rise. Consequently, this also means that most churches\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 reach within their community is also shrinking. It poses the questions:<br \/>\nHow many miles are people willing to drive to attend your church?<br \/>\nHow many miles would an unchurched person be willing to drive to attend your church?<br \/>\nHow can a church reach out to those beyond their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and those unwilling to drive further due to gas prices?<br \/>\nHow about an expanded bus service, gas cards for visitors, or an <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/churchrelevance.com\/2007\/01\/18\/seacoast-church-launches-an-internet-campus\/\">Internet campus<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Via <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/churchrelevance\/~3\/117727105\/\">Church Relevance<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are driving less than they used to. USA Today reports that the average American motorist has significantly cut back on their driving in the last 18 months for the first time in 25 years. People are actually following through with their plans to reduce driving as gas prices rise. Consequently, this also means that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reaching-out-with-high-gas-prices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reaching out with high gas prices<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}