{"id":3881,"date":"2008-07-21T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2008-07-21T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:44:10","slug":"encounter-goes-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/encounter-goes-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"encounter goes living room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had a different Sunday morning experience for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\">encounter<\/a>. Rather than gathering at the Civic Center, we met in 10 different homes around Ellis County. Each group was given a DVD (video below) and the DVDs were followed up with some discussion questions.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time yesterday morning!<\/p>\n<p>I keep hearing more and more reports from folks who said they really enjoyed their get togethers which came in all sizes. I think the smallest group was 4 or 5 and the largest group had over 20. At least 100 people participated in encounter goes living room and I think everyone who participated was impacted in some way.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who missed out&#8230; or would just like to watch it again&#8230; here&#8217;s the video from the DVD we watched :: <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1364881&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1364881?pg=embed&#038;sec=1364881\">encounter goes living room<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/jdblundell?pg=embed&#038;sec=1364881\">Jonathan Blundell<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&#038;sec=1364881\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the video, each group discussed the following questions ::<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what would the experience of church be like if it was less like a presentation, building, or club and more like a spiritual home of people each living to fully serve Christ and others? <\/li>\n<li>what would it take for people to get to that level of understanding and living? <\/li>\n<li>what would difference would it make to people far from God if the church had the feel of a spiritual home? <\/li>\n<li>what difference will these truths mean for you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those who couldn&#8217;t make it &#8211; feel free to watch the video, read the questions and share your own answers and thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks again to all the host homes and leaders who made yesterday possible! You all did a great job!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had a different Sunday morning experience for encounter. Rather than gathering at the Civic Center, we met in 10 different homes around Ellis County. Each group was given a DVD (video below) and the DVDs were followed up with some discussion questions. We had a great time yesterday morning! I keep hearing more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/encounter-goes-living-room\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">encounter goes living room<\/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":[560,18,12],"tags":[1094,4659,39,9,1297,1296,1298,1299],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-faith","category-techno","tag-acts","tag-community","tag-encounter","tag-encounterthiscom","tag-home-church","tag-organic-church","tag-priesthood","tag-temple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-10B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}