{"id":41,"date":"2008-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-07T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:15:56","slug":"developing-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/2008\/05\/29\/developing-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/files\/2008\/05\/newsAP(7315)_img.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/files\/2008\/05\/newsAP(7315)_img.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>As the church develops, the believers come to understand that they are the church, united in Christ whether gathered together or scattered.\u00a0 This unity is enhanced as they gether together to hear God&#8217;s word and work together to serve God&#8217;s purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Their exposure to the scriptures reveals more of their own culture or worldview that is out of harmony with the truth.\u00a0 They make changes based on their understanding of the authority of the scriptures rather than in response to the missionaries&#8217; suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>As the missionaries continue to teach, they are translating more and more of the New Testament and key Old Testament passages.\u00a0 These, along with the Bible lessons will be available for the believers to continue to grow and develop.\u00a0 Those believers who are seen to be gifted in teaching are discipled so they can be taking more and more of the responsibility of feeding the church.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Big Picture\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/2008\/05\/29\/big-picture\/\" target=\"_self\">The Big Picture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Continuing Church\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/2008\/05\/29\/continuing-church\/\" target=\"_self\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the church develops, the believers come to understand that they are the church, united in Christ whether gathered together or scattered.\u00a0 This unity is enhanced as they gether together to hear God&#8217;s word and work together to serve God&#8217;s purposes. Their exposure to the scriptures reveals more of their own culture or worldview that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}