{"id":7390,"date":"2011-03-11T08:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2011-03-11T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:18:18","slug":"i-am-a-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/i-am-a-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnylaird.net\">Johnny Laird<\/a> shared this video from Kroc Church &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kroccenter.org\/\">a Salvation Army community in San Diego<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I shared this over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Simplechurchipedia.com\">Simplechurchipedia.com<\/a> and thought it was worthy of a share here as well.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20622408?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ed000c\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What comes to mind when you watch it?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the statement, &#8220;I am not a pastor &#8211; but I am a minister&#8221; as someone puts it in the video&#8230; I know what they&#8217;re referring to &#8211; but personally I prefer to see them one in the same.<\/p>\n<p>And prefer to believe that we&#8217;re all pastors and ministers to our spheres of influence.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if all believers saw themselves as &#8220;Priests in the hood&#8221; who were actually living this out &#8212; being the Body of Christ to their sphere of influence?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Laird shared this video from Kroc Church &#8211; a Salvation Army community in San Diego&#8230; I shared this over on Simplechurchipedia.com and thought it was worthy of a share here as well. What comes to mind when you watch it? I don&#8217;t like the statement, &#8220;I am not a pastor &#8211; but I am &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/i-am-a-minister\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am a minister<\/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":[219,4079,4077,4076,1706,4078],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-church","tag-community-center","tag-kroc-center","tag-kroc-church","tag-san-diego","tag-the-salvation-army"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1Vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","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=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}