{"id":742,"date":"2009-02-06T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2009-02-06T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:28:50","slug":"hauerwas-on-the-parable-of-the-sower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/02\/06\/hauerwas-on-the-parable-of-the-sower\/","title":{"rendered":"Hauerwas on the Parable of the Sower"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The shallow character of many strategies for renewal [of the Church] is revealed just to the extent that the resulting churches cannot understand how Christians might face persecutions.&nbsp; This is particularly a problem in America, where Christians cannot imagine how being a Christian might put them in tension with the American way of life.&nbsp; This is as true for Christians on the left as it is for Christians on the right.&nbsp; Both mistakenly assume, often in quite similar ways, that freedom is a necessary condition for discipleship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Stanley Hauerwas, Commentary on Matthew 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shallow character of many strategies for renewal [of the Church] is revealed just to the extent that the resulting churches cannot understand how Christians might face persecutions.&nbsp; This is particularly a problem in America, where Christians cannot imagine how being a Christian might put them in tension with the American way of life.&nbsp; This [&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":[31,4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-studies","category-spirituality","category-theological-hermeneutics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}