{"id":4521,"date":"2009-05-13T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2009-05-13T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:30:40","slug":"doing-it-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/doing-it-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing it all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaungroves.com\/shlog\">Shaun Groves<\/a> just returned from a week+ long trip to India with a group of bloggers for Compassion International (<a href=\"http:\/\/compassionbloggers.com\/trips\/2009-india\">read their thoughts here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As part of their trip, Shaun he met with a couple different pastors who are choosing to do church outside of the norm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/pete-pastor1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/pete-pastor1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Shaun Groves in India\" title=\"Shaun Groves in India\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/pete-pastor1-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/pete-pastor1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaungroves.com\/shlog\/comments\/our_witness\/\">Shaun writes<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing it all wrong. <\/p>\n<p>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the pastor of a church in Kolkata, India that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partnering with Compassion International &#8211; he says to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153serve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d kids in his community.<\/p>\n<p>Pete and I saw a lot of unchurchy stuff going on at this church&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a common mistake for pastors in the developing world. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know any better. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been to a pastors conference.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen this time and again: churches in the third world doing stuff we Christians in America are savvy enough to get politicians and non-profits to do for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaungroves.com\/shlog\/comments\/our_witness\/\">Shaun&#8217;s blog<\/a> for pictures and more info&#8230; and then I encourage you to say a prayer for all the guys doing it all wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Groves just returned from a week+ long trip to India with a group of bloggers for Compassion International (read their thoughts here). As part of their trip, Shaun he met with a couple different pastors who are choosing to do church outside of the norm. Shaun writes&#8230; This guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing it all wrong. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/doing-it-all-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doing it all wrong<\/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":[2165,219,2164,2168,2163,985,1063,1367,2167,2166],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-bloggers","tag-church","tag-compassion-international","tag-developing","tag-india","tag-missional","tag-pastors","tag-shaun-groves","tag-third-world","tag-trip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}