{"id":94,"date":"2005-04-17T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.markporthouse.net\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-11-26T03:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T03:02:57","slug":"setting-up-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to &#8216;set up&#8217; a church? I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>If you &#8216;set up&#8217; a church then there is immediately a sense of heirarchy, the founders and the invitees &#8211; you also immediately have other structures and practices such as a meeting place and a meeting time. I&#8217;m not sure if these things are fundamentally important to being church. I wonder how much they get in the way?<\/p>\n<form style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/interactivehug.com\/?spider_man_2\">Spider-Man 2 on dvd<\/a><\/form>\n<p> To me, church is about being friends with other people who are also part of Christ&#8217;s body. I&#8217;m tempted to think that this means I am church with whatever Christian&#8217;s I spend time with&#8230; even if they already &#8216;go to a church&#8217; (how bizarre is the term &#8216;go to a church&#8217;?! How can one &#8216;go to a church&#8217;?).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the term &#8216;church planting&#8217; was first coined to overcome this problem of whether it was possible to &#8216;set up&#8217; a church? The basic concept of the term &#8216;church planting&#8217; is surely merely the concept of being church, mixing with brother&#8217;s and sister&#8217;s and then church emerging from that basic root.<\/p>\n<form style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i-to-i.irexnet.com\/?be_kind_rewind\">Be Kind Rewind movie<\/a><\/form>\n<p> ?????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to &#8216;set up&#8217; a church? I&#8217;m not sure. If you &#8216;set up&#8217; a church then there is immediately a sense of heirarchy, the founders and the invitees &#8211; you also immediately have other structures and practices such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=94\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}