{"id":2490,"date":"2007-06-05T20:58:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2007-06-05T20:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T02:58:50","slug":"re-pursuing-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-pursuing-relevance\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Pursuing relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was skimming through Blue Like Jazz again tonight and came across this from <strong>Donald Miller<\/strong>, thought it fit the previous post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think any church has ever been relevant to culture, to the human struggle, unless it believed in Jesus and the power of His Gospel. If the supposed new church believes in trendy music and cool web pages, then it is not relevant to culture either. It is just another tool of Satan to get people to be passionate about nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And one other thought on a slightly different topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was skimming through Blue Like Jazz again tonight and came across this from Donald Miller, thought it fit the previous post: I don&#8217;t think any church has ever been relevant to culture, to the human struggle, unless it believed in Jesus and the power of His Gospel. If the supposed new church believes in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-pursuing-relevance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Re: Pursuing relevance<\/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-2490","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-Ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}