{"id":10404,"date":"2022-08-13T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"giving-and-getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10404","title":{"rendered":"GIVING AND GETTING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the last ten months I have been working at meeting with some other guys from church on a weekly basis for Bible study. It has been difficult to start a group and equally difficult to build it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guys are busy. They often commit early on and then quickly fade away. And brotherhood is simply not instantaneous.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think there are spiritual forces working against anyone seeking to develop a habit of weekly spiritual conversations. I feel it in myself even. I don&#8217;t really look forward to meeting with the guys until it is under way and then I think, &#8220;This is awesome&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans about his desire to get together with them face to face:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong &#8211; that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other&#8217;s faith.&#8221; (Romans 1:11-12)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something truly beautiful for me in meeting together with brothers in Christ on a regular basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I give and I get.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last ten months I have been working at meeting with some other guys from church on a weekly basis for Bible study. It has been difficult to start a group and equally difficult to build it.\u00a0 Guys are busy. They often commit early on and then quickly fade away. And brotherhood is simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}