{"id":112,"date":"2007-08-17T09:54:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/friday-thoughts-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-12T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T00:39:59","slug":"friday-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/friday-thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!\u00a0 Here are some thoughts going through my mind today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Had a great meeting with my pastor this morning.\u00a0 How <strong>incredibly encouraging<\/strong> it is to just <a title=\"Bible Gateway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=24&amp;chapter=27&amp;verse=17&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\">sharpen<\/a> each other.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The number one reason that churches don&#8217;t grow is because of a lack of personal evangelism.&#8221;\u00a0 I think I have to agree with that.\u00a0 If we take the responsibility of <a title=\"Bible Gateway | Acts 1:8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=acts%201:8;&amp;version=31;\">&#8220;you shall be my witnesses&#8221;<\/a> seriously, we should spend our efforts trying to reach out to the broken and help them get healed with the help of Jesus.\u00a0 When they see that Jesus heals, they&#8217;ll fall in love with Him, and will want to be part of His church, His bride.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Jesus&#8217; bride, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.worship.com\/worship\/2007\/08\/i-love-jesus-bu.html\">this post<\/a> very intriguing and eye-opening.\u00a0 &#8220;Membership in and service to a local, biblically organized church body is not optional in the life of a believer, and is something that should not be taken lightly.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Along those lines, I think the quote above should read, &#8220;Partnership,&#8221; not membership.\u00a0 <a title=\"Swerve.lifechurch.tv | Get rid of church members\" href=\"http:\/\/swerve.lifechurch.tv\/2007\/08\/15\/guest-blog-scott-williams-3\/\">Check this out.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still waiting for your <a title=\"What are your questions?\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/what-are-your-questions\/\">questions.<\/a> I would <strong>really love <\/strong>to get to know who&#8217;s reading this blog.\u00a0 Even if it&#8217;s a question like, &#8220;Who in the world are you and why do you think you know anything about worship and music?&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/friday-thoughts-2\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!\u00a0 Here are some thoughts going through my mind today: Had a great meeting with my pastor this morning.\u00a0 How incredibly encouraging it is to just sharpen each other. &#8220;The number one reason that churches don&#8217;t grow is because of a lack of personal evangelism.&#8221;\u00a0 I think I have to agree with that.\u00a0 If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}