{"id":4893,"date":"2009-12-18T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2009-12-17T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:43:55","slug":"5-reasons-i-love-being-in-a-small-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/5-reasons-i-love-being-in-a-small-group\/","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons I love being in a small group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/flickr\/photo\/751284883\/jonathan-and-aaron.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Jonathan and Aaron\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1123\/751284883_405601309e.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan and Aaron\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2009\/12\/16\/5-reasons-i-don%E2%80%99t-like-being-in-a-small-group%E2%80%A6i-didn%E2%80%99t-say-they-were-good-reasons\/\">Abraham Piper<\/a> (who has a great blog that you should be reading) shared 5 reasons he doesn&#8217;t like being in a small group this week.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t disagree with his reasons, but thought I&#8217;d share the flip side &#8211; 5 reasons I love being in a small group.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I love watching people grow in their faith<\/li>\n<li>I love seeing people build sanctuary (spaces of grace) for others<\/li>\n<li>I realize I&#8217;m not the only one struggling and wrestling<\/li>\n<li>I learn <em>many<\/em> things from the stories of others<\/li>\n<li>The food is great<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about you? What do you love about small groups\/community groups? What do you dislike about them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Piper (who has a great blog that you should be reading) shared 5 reasons he doesn&#8217;t like being in a small group this week. I don&#8217;t disagree with his reasons, but thought I&#8217;d share the flip side &#8211; 5 reasons I love being in a small group. I love watching people grow in their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/5-reasons-i-love-being-in-a-small-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 reasons I love being in a small group<\/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":[2818,4659,4650,2819,498,977],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-abraham-piper","tag-community","tag-faith","tag-grow","tag-love","tag-small-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","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=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}