{"id":6752,"date":"2022-11-07T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:24:50","slug":"the-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6752","title":{"rendered":"The Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Church (as The Gathering) <br>Is not first an entertainment venue; <br>Nor a place for one to get his ears tickled; <br>Not first a place to socialize and relieve <br>Oneself from the boredom of one&#8217;s sorrows. <br><br>It is, first, the gathering of God&#8217;s people <br>To worship the Father, Son, and Spirit. <br>It is the place where God&#8217;s special presence <br>Comes to all who have come in His name.<br> <br>And yet all those who come are well served <br>With better entertainment than can be found <br>Anywhere in the theaters around the world: <br>The very Presence of God amidst His people <br>And in the Body and Blood broken for us. <br><br><em>That <\/em>social event is greater than any other; <br><em>That <\/em>Food is better than any other, <br>Because <em>He<\/em> is there among those He saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Nov., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church (as The Gathering) Is not first an entertainment venue; Nor a place for one to get his ears tickled; Not first a place to socialize and relieve Oneself from the boredom of one&#8217;s sorrows. It is, first, the gathering of God&#8217;s people To worship the Father, Son, and Spirit. It is the place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,18,52,23,53,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}