{"id":890,"date":"2021-04-15T04:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robbinsrendezvous.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2021-04-15T04:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:24:19","slug":"serving-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Serving our community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AmyShermanBioPhotoweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AmyShermanBioPhotoweb.jpg 180w, https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AmyShermanBioPhotoweb-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption>Amy Sherman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sociologist and researcher, Amy Sherman has said that Christians tend to have three models for interacting with society: fortification, accommodation, and domination. To put that another way: We hunker down amongst ourselves, water down our witness, or beat down our opponents. For many reasons, those aren\u2019t New Testament models.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short the withdrawal-compromise-argumentative\/condemning approach to sharing the gospel will not work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phillip Yancey suggests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to create pioneer settlements that show the world a different, grace-based way of living\u2026A few generations ago, Billy Graham would fill the largest stadium in any city, stand up, and say \u201cthe Bible says,\u201d and have the audience nod along. Today, belief in the Bible can\u2019t be taken for granted, so appeals to the Bible won\u2019t have the same power. <em>The new paradigm, in this culture, is that you reach out with acts of mercy that touch people\u2019s hearts, and hopefully they want to know why.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gospel \u201cdemonstrated\u201d leads to the gospel \u201cproclaimed.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine if we organized ourselves in our neighborhood, city and world as people existing for the sake of outsiders\u2026The more we act like Jesus, not beating people down but showing a better way to live, the more outsiders will look back and say, \u201cThose Christians are different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I worry that we are losing the meaning of the word: Evangelical or even Christian, as the primary models of these words seen in popular media, are not reflecting this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociologist and researcher, Amy Sherman has said that Christians tend to have three models for interacting with society: fortification, accommodation, and domination. To put that another way: We hunker down amongst ourselves, water down our witness, or beat down our opponents. For many reasons, those aren\u2019t New Testament models.\u201d&nbsp; In short the withdrawal-compromise-argumentative\/condemning approach to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-allans-thoughts","category-world-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}