{"id":608,"date":"2012-11-29T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2012-11-29T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T16:20:25","slug":"whats-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Weird&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh emailed some of us today with a video he found. It&#8217;s Francis Chan, one of my favorite speakers \/ authors. He talks about how weird it is, in our culture, to be a committed follower of Jesus. Chan notes that he and his wife hear, from other Christians even, that \u00a0what they are doing (ministry in San Francisco) is strange and unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Then Chan speaks of what&#8217;s weird from his perspective. Take a moment and watch, then ask yourself, &#8220;When people look back on our time, how will they judge us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15995250<\/p>\n<p>In order to be effective, we&#8217;ll probably have to be a little weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh emailed some of us today with a video he found. It&#8217;s Francis Chan, one of my favorite speakers \/ authors. He talks about how weird it is, in our culture, to be a committed follower of Jesus. Chan notes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=608\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-9O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}