{"id":357,"date":"2011-08-03T10:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:37:21","slug":"feeling-disconnected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Disconnected&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the benefits Christians of recent decades have enjoyed<\/strong> is doing things in bulk. Sunday morning was a time when everyone was together &#8212; in bulk. It was similar on Sunday and Wednesday evenings.<\/p>\n<p>When Carl George and others advanced the small group model of the church, they noted the importance of the Sunday morning service &#8212; a time when all the groups came together to worship &#8212; along with the importance of small groups. Part of the jargon they used included the terms,\u00a0<strong>cell<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>celebration<\/strong>. They noted that the celebration of Christ was best experienced in a larger community of believers connecting in worship, and that cell groups gave opportunity for genuine spiritual intimacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you miss out on either of these, you will feel disconnected.<\/strong> But when you embrace both, the experience is generally more fulfilling than doing things in bulk all the time.<\/p>\n<p>So, as you might have guessed, this is a shameless solicitation asking those who call Curwensville Alliance their church home to engage in both the cell aspect (small groups) and the celebration aspect (corporate worship).<\/p>\n<p>Not only does it help you feel connected, it also helps you grow to be the disciple God wants you to become.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please pray with me that our church would experience the joy of small group interaction with the celebration of corporate worship.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits Christians of recent decades have enjoyed is doing things in bulk. Sunday morning was a time when everyone was together &#8212; in bulk. It was similar on Sunday and Wednesday evenings. When Carl George and others &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-family","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-5L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}