{"id":843,"date":"2013-05-23T19:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/what-a-challenge\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T19:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:02:03","slug":"what-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/what-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"What a challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One of the challenges faced as the indigenous Church grows in India and the number of small house churches increases is their relationship with the community.\u00a0\u00a0 In many cases, conflicts arise between the church and the community because of wrong perceptions on the part of the church as well as the community.\u00a0 As a result interaction between the local church and the community is minimized if not totally absent.\u00a0 How can the church then in such a situation become the \u2018salt\u2019 and the \u2018light\u2019 as the Bible teaches?\u00a0\u00a0 How can it influence the community and change negative cultural and social values in a non-existing and conflicting relationship?\u00a0\u00a0 These are questions that Christian leaders are asking now in the present context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Church must remain in the community and be a valued part of the community.\u00a0 The church must have a strong relationship with the community. \u00a0\u00a0Being so would open opportunities to interact with the community in healthy ways and become a catalyst of transformation. \u00a0This is critical in the present context of church growth that is witnessed in India. \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/d8673a69aeaeda99bfb207514314617e\/tumblr_inline_mn9m4i74XG1qz4rgp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/a1d771fa0a0d9fa0b420e3a6182f7c9e\/tumblr_inline_mn9m5f41Xo1qz4rgp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/ee18b34482744aae9e9456b4e91b5f41\/tumblr_inline_mn9m5yLzlY1qz4rgp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the challenges faced as the indigenous Church grows in India and the number of small house churches increases is their relationship with the community.\u00a0\u00a0 In many cases, conflicts arise between the church and the community because of wrong perceptions on the part of the church as well as the community.\u00a0 As a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,326],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dminlgp","tag-roam","cohort-lgp3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}