{"id":110,"date":"2004-11-08T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/really-small-youth-rallies\/"},"modified":"2004-11-08T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T14:16:36","slug":"really-small-youth-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/really-small-youth-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"Really small youth rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Spencer has good ideas. In his article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelspencer.us\/archives\/2004\/08\/000087.html\">Subcultural Spirituality or &#8220;I know he&#8217;s a Christian because I saw it on his bumper sticker.&#8221;<\/a>, he warns against replacing personal disciplines with church campaigns.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI appreciate the need for personal spiritual disciplines. But as individualistic Americans, we&#8217;re in danger of substituting them for living involvement with others in the body of Christ.  <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that was one of the deepest problems with our 70&#8217;s generation in the evangelical\/SBC churches (Michael and I share that cultural background). Looking for community, many of us later sought refuge in more emotional environments, if we didn&#8217;t leave the church altogether. <\/p>\n<p>Many of those stumping for spiritual disciplines are still promoting  youth rallies, only these youth rallies are held individually, preferably in the morning, with a Bible or devotional book in hand, and no leader to stir up the listener(s).<\/p>\n<p>Emerging churches may be &#8220;body art-friendly&#8221; but they&#8217;re also friends for the emotionally fatherless and the spiritual orphans. Sure, we should stand for the right when they don&#8217;t, but we should also ask God to show us what they&#8217;re doing right. And that may include more tightly-knit, more un-American communities than we&#8217;re used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Spencer has good ideas. In his article, Subcultural Spirituality or &#8220;I know he&#8217;s a Christian because I saw it on his bumper sticker.&#8221;, he warns against replacing personal disciplines with church campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-cyberspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}