{"id":7548,"date":"2021-12-20T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","slug":"mens-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7548","title":{"rendered":"MEN&#8217;S DISCIPLESHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning after worship an older lady approached me and said, &#8220;There was a young man looking for you &#8211; he wanted to meet you.&#8221; It turns out the &#8220;young man&#8221; is retirement aged! He was wanting to put a face with my name because I had texted him about joining a men&#8217;s small group focused on discipleship.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t know him; I had gotten his name and number from the church office as being someone interested in joining a small group.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He introduced me to his friend who was also looking for a small group.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will bring our men&#8217;s group to five members come January.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I am thinking this is just the tip of the iceberg of the number of men in our church &#8211; and the wider community &#8211; looking for opportunities for genuine spiritual growth and accountability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning after worship an older lady approached me and said, &#8220;There was a young man looking for you &#8211; he wanted to meet you.&#8221; It turns out the &#8220;young man&#8221; is retirement aged! He was wanting to put a face with my name because I had texted him about joining a men&#8217;s small group [&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-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","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=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}