{"id":4398,"date":"2014-08-01T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:37:50","slug":"no-chest-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4398","title":{"rendered":"NO CHEST BEATING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 92px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/rapgenius\/1354129519_74000804_4252bcef62.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our dear friends, Allison and Darin Maurer, served on Cru staff with us at Stanford University. \u00a0Allison recently reminded me of a visit they paid to us when we were living in the &#8220;Chicagoland&#8221; area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We went to Willow Creek and they were having a celebration for their church. \u00a0They had a nifty brochure for the event, but it was the information inside which shocked <em>and<\/em> thrilled me. \u00a0Along with the wonderful things which happened over the years, they candidly described some of their failures, including mention (not by name) of former pastors infidelity. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was edified by Willow Creek&#8217;s humility, and their saying no to the temptation of beating their collective chest.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear friends, Allison and Darin Maurer, served on Cru staff with us at Stanford University. \u00a0Allison recently reminded me of a visit they paid to us when we were living in the &#8220;Chicagoland&#8221; area. We went to Willow Creek and they were having a celebration for their church. \u00a0They had a nifty brochure for [&hellip;]<\/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":[90,43,106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-christianity","category-church","category-sin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}