{"id":4741,"date":"2009-09-10T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:57:33","slug":"7-is-greater-than-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/7-is-greater-than-1\/","title":{"rendered":"7 is greater than 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday morning for the last couple years, I&#8217;ve been meeting with a group of great guys for conversation about life and God at our local Whataburger. The group&#8217;s mainly been led by Brian, our pastor, but with the continued growth, we decided to split the group and host two groups &#8212; one in Waxahachie at Chick-Fil-A and the other at our original location in Red Oak.<\/p>\n<p>This week I asked the other two guys (our numbers have dropped since the split :-)) what their church would look like if they removed all their prejudices from the past and started with nothing but their knowledge of Scripture and a blank sheet of paper.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe agreed on several points&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>participation by all<\/li>\n<li>dialogue vs monologue<\/li>\n<li>strong community<\/li>\n<li>a people on mission &#8211; sent out into the community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conversations and additional ideas that were brought up were great. I only wish I had this video from <a href=\"http:\/\/soulcitychurch.com\/\">Soul City Church<\/a> (a church launching in Spring 2010) to show them as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>7 is greater than 1!<\/p>\n<p>HT to <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/churchbartender\" target=\"_blank\">@churchbartender<\/a><\/span> for <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdplaceconsulting.com\/2009\/08\/a-cold-brewed-tear-to-my-eye\/\">the video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday morning for the last couple years, I&#8217;ve been meeting with a group of great guys for conversation about life and God at our local Whataburger. The group&#8217;s mainly been led by Brian, our pastor, but with the continued growth, we decided to split the group and host two groups &#8212; one in Waxahachie &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/7-is-greater-than-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 is greater than 1<\/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":[2571,219,2573,2256,2572,11],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-7-greater-than-1","tag-church","tag-church-bartender","tag-church-plant","tag-soul-city-church","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}