{"id":2980,"date":"2012-09-04T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2012-09-04T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:58:22","slug":"the-long-apprenticeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/the-long-apprenticeship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Apprenticeship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning September 16, we&#8217;re going to spend six or so weeks of Sundays thinking together about following Christ. \u00a0And our thinking shall lead to action. \u00a0Eugene Peterson says it well, I think: <em>&#8220;It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest.\u00a0\u00a0In our kind of culture anything, even news about God can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap.\u00a0\u00a0There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue,<strong> little inclination to sign up for the long apprenticeship in what earlier generations called holiness.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/the-long-apprenticeship\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning September 16, we&#8217;re going to spend six or so weeks of Sundays thinking together about following Christ. \u00a0And our thinking shall lead to action. \u00a0Eugene Peterson says it well, I think: &#8220;It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the gospel; it is terrifically difficult to [&#8230;]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-M4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}