{"id":2279,"date":"2022-07-18T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:50","slug":"emmaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"EMMAUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220717_092235_HDR-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4624\" height=\"2600\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220717_092256_HDR-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4624\" height=\"2600\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had the privilege of preaching this morning at the sweetest country church an hour and a half away from home.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had 6 for Sunday school and the same 6 for worship. (At least we didn&#8217;t lose anybody in between!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their pastor moved to a different church a few weeks ago and they are uncertain of what the future holds for them. Please pray for them as they seek God&#8217;s will.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They have some great things going for them. They&#8217;ve got a well-kept building on the edge of town. Everybody was willing to pray out loud during the prayer time. And they share communion every Sunday morning &#8211; a good practice, in my opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the members themselves were super sweet. It was obvious they care deeply for each other. I can think of few qualities more essential for an authentic church!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the church were closer, I might be tempted to preach there on a regular basis until they can find a pastor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege of preaching this morning at the sweetest country church an hour and a half away from home.\u00a0 We had 6 for Sunday school and the same 6 for worship. (At least we didn&#8217;t lose anybody in between!) Their pastor moved to a different church a few weeks ago and they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}