{"id":3119,"date":"2010-01-28T04:59:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2010-01-28T04:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:59:09","slug":"repost-introverts-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/28\/repost-introverts-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Introverts in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But many churches fail to make this distinction. They tacitly set up the following equation for church life:<br \/>\nSpirituality = Sociability<br \/>\nFor example, I was once visiting with a church leader at my church who was making a recommendation that, to make our adult classes more &#8220;meaningful,&#8221; we would need to share more of our lives in these classes. I stated that such a recommendation would drive the introverts crazy. The response was, &#8220;God is about relationships and church is about relationships. Thus, if these people aren&#8217;t going to be involved in relationships they will just have to change.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/introverts-in-church.html\">Experimental Theology: Introverts in the Church<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But many churches fail to make this distinction. They tacitly set up the following equation for church life: Spirituality = Sociability For example, I was once visiting with a church leader at my church who was making a recommendation that, to make our adult classes more &#8220;meaningful,&#8221; we would need to share more of our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/28\/repost-introverts-in-the-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Introverts in the Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}