{"id":2319,"date":"2011-12-20T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2011-12-20T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:11:42","slug":"ekklesia-project-slow-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/12\/20\/ekklesia-project-slow-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekklesia Project:  &quot;Slow Church&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesiaproject.org\/\">Ekklesia Project<\/a>.\u00a0 So much of what they&#8217;re about embodies my own sensibilities concerning faith, Church, scholarship, community, and <em>polis<\/em>.\u00a0 Their theme of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesiaproject.org\/the-gathering\/2012-slow-church-and-fast-friends\/\">slow church<\/a>&#8221; is much needed today.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesiaproject.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/truth-dazzles-gradually\/\">one Ekklesia blogger notes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there is no substitute for the slow, sometimes painful growth that comes through disciplined habits of practice shaped by the crucified and risen Christ.\u00a0 One does not become an excellent piano player, painter, dancer, carpenter, or baseball player overnight; neither does one learn to become a Christian overnight.\u00a0 We can\u2019t know Jesus, the Incarnate Son of God, in five quick easy lessons accompanied by an inspirational DVD.\u00a0 One needs teachers and mentors and a community of friends, and one needs to practice over a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things, and Truth is one of them, that can be understood rightly only if we understand them over time.\u00a0 The very essence of Truth is that it can only be known slowly, in bits and pieces that are chewed on, meditated on, reflected over, talked about, practiced and then practiced some more with others living with the same Truth.<\/p>\n<p>Gradually, as we come to know the Truth of Jesus Christ, we may be dazzled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciate the Ekklesia Project.\u00a0 So much of what they&#8217;re about embodies my own sensibilities concerning faith, Church, scholarship, community, and polis.\u00a0 Their theme of &#8220;slow church&#8221; is much needed today.\u00a0 As one Ekklesia blogger notes, there is no substitute for the slow, sometimes painful growth that comes through disciplined habits of practice shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-Bp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}