{"id":332,"date":"2012-04-25T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/gc2012\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:10:43","slug":"this-is-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/this-is-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Conference this time around has been a much different experience for me than when I was in Fort Worth in 2008. As part of the <strong>Young Person\u2019s Address<\/strong> I was pressured to be careful what I said and whom I said it to. This time, I am in Tampa as a visitor with no official responsibilities, which has been wonderful and at the same time frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, I am aware of the irony of what I\u2019m about to say\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere I go, everywhere I sit, I hear people complaining about other people and using destructive language\u2026and it\u2019s only day one!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat an idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the stupidest thing I\u2019ve ever heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould she just shut up already?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously? This is the body of people who are supposed to represent the United Methodist Church to the rest of the entire human population? No wonder many of our churches are struggling\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this doesn\u2019t represent a significant number of our delegates but these types of attitudes seem to spread like a virus throughout an organism\u2026and we are the body of Christ aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p>James 4:11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.becausepeoplematter.com\/marks_weblog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/gossip.jpg\">Photo Credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Conference this time around has been a much different experience for me than when I was in Fort Worth in 2008. As part of the Young Person\u2019s Address I was pressured to be careful what I said and whom I said it to. This time, I am in Tampa as a visitor with no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"tag-gc2012-pnwumc"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gossip-wp.jpeg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}