{"id":9445,"date":"2022-09-22T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9445"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:39:06","slug":"stuck-in-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9445","title":{"rendered":"STUCK IN THE PRESENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B08YFJXDTK\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>When I wrote\u00a0<em>Stuck in the Present<\/em>, I was not thinking about megachurches per se, but this excerpt describes a concern that seems more formidable in larger churches:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A community, especially a Christian one, is a group of people who share something in common that transcends socioeconomic or racial backgrounds. What Christians share is a common history\u2014a living tradition. When we lose sight of this living tradition, we put ourselves in a perilous situation. With a sketchy understanding of our common identity as Christians, we are no longer able to have true community with one another.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>David George Moore, <em>Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians<\/em>, p. 93.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote\u00a0Stuck in the Present, I was not thinking about megachurches per se, but this excerpt describes a concern that seems more formidable in larger churches: &#8220;A community, especially a Christian one, is a group of people who share something in common that transcends socioeconomic or racial backgrounds. What Christians share is a common [&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":[31,43,178,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-christianity","category-history","category-spiritual-life","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445","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=9445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9446,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions\/9446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}