{"id":81,"date":"2016-05-13T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/?p=81"},"modified":"2021-05-05T03:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:30:36","slug":"religious-consumer-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/religious-consumer-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Consumer Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u201cI went to the church for a year, but the pastor\u2019s sermons just didn\u2019t speak to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI liked the music\u2026 but no one ever came up and introduced themselves to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI attended the women\u2019s Bible study\u2026 but no one seemed to care about what I had to say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Merely going to a church almost never meets our expectations. Church can be uplifting. It can help you meet new people. It can encourage you to be a good person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if you want to encounter the risen LORD, and know the joy of being loved, you have to know the pains of being part of the Body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If being the Church was easy, Jesus would not have needed to die. He would not have needed to rise again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI went to the church for a year, but the pastor\u2019s sermons just didn\u2019t speak to me.\u201d \u201cI liked the music\u2026 but no one ever came up and introduced themselves to me.\u201d \u201cI attended the women\u2019s Bible study\u2026 but no one seemed to care about what I had to say.\u201d Merely going to a church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n