{"id":3374,"date":"2008-01-22T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2008-01-22T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T19:51:29","slug":"hanging-out-with-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/hanging-out-with-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging out with Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeyouttanowhere.com\/thoughts\/archives\/2008\/01\/16_21_59.php\"><strong>Kevin Hendricks<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\">Church Marketing Sucks<\/a>) shares some thoughts from his community group last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Throughout the New Testament he spends a lot of time just hanging out with people. He&#8217;s not doing anything productive, he&#8217;s just hanging out. That Jesus&#8211;what a bum.<\/p>\n<p>But I think Jesus was intentionally modeling the value of relationships. In many ways I think our faith is worked out in our relationships with others. When I&#8217;m really close to people I don&#8217;t have to do anything with them. We can just hang out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and love this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contrary to what we may think, Christianity cannot be lived in a vacuum. No Christian is an island. We need each other. There&#8217;s value in just being with other people.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Hendricks (Church Marketing Sucks) shares some thoughts from his community group last week: Throughout the New Testament he spends a lot of time just hanging out with people. He&#8217;s not doing anything productive, he&#8217;s just hanging out. That Jesus&#8211;what a bum. But I think Jesus was intentionally modeling the value of relationships. In many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/hanging-out-with-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hanging out with Jesus<\/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":[560,18],"tags":[4659,697,286],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-faith","tag-community","tag-hanging-out","tag-jesus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","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=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}