{"id":42,"date":"2007-01-30T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T02:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-01-31T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T16:00:07","slug":"theme-of-the-day-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/theme-of-the-day-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of the day &#8211; Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning in staff devotions we talked about the fact that a community of believers needs to be just that &#8211; a community of believers.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs to be a place where everyone helps everyone else, no matter how small or how large.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet so many times we&#8217;re unwilling to accept help.\u00c2\u00a0 We can talk about hospitality all we want, but why does our pride get in the way so often of being vulnerable and saying, &#8220;I need help?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We miss out on:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Possibly cultivating lasting relationships by asking for help.<\/li>\n<li>Possibly allowing God in to conquer some major problems in our lives by not asking for help.<\/li>\n<li>Possibly not seeing others&#8217; needs by not asking for help with our own.<\/li>\n<li>Missing an oppourtunity to experience God&#8217;s grace through His people<\/li>\n<li>The list could go on and on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Craig Groeschel was just talking on <a href=\"http:\/\/swerve.lifechurch.tv\" title=\"Swerve Blog\">Swerve<\/a> about small vs. large churches and the fact that a lot of people leave the larger churches because they don&#8217;t feel needed.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it possible that people also are afraid to let go of pride and admit that they need something as well?<\/p>\n<p>~ God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble ~ From James<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be humble.<\/p>\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\/theme-of-the-day-vulnerability\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning in staff devotions we talked about the fact that a community of believers needs to be just that &#8211; a community of believers.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs to be a place where everyone helps everyone else, no matter how small or how large.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet so many times we&#8217;re unwilling to accept help.\u00c2\u00a0 We can talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}