{"id":2362,"date":"2012-04-03T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T04:13:07","slug":"redeemer-report-comment-introducing-community-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2362","title":{"rendered":"Redeemer Report Comment: Introducing Community Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this month's (April 2012) Redeemer Newsletter, I was disturbed by the article \"Introducing Community Groups: Fellowship Groups Get a New Name!\".<\/p>\n<p>It is more like \"fellowship groups get name downgrade\".<\/p>\n<p>My E-mail to the community leaders explains it all:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>Well, Community groups sound very \u201cuniversal\u201d and welcoming.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>But I still do not feel the need of replacing the name<br \/>\n\u201cfellowship\u201d. Because I do not think it is an old term, nor necessary to be<br \/>\ncompromised to be more \u201cseeker\u201d friendly.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>It is better to teach what the biblical \u201ckoinonia\u201d truly<br \/>\nmeans, than to do away\/water down the terms from the Book.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>I\u2019d rather say I belong to a fellowship group or Christian<br \/>\ncommunity group, and add \u201cit is a community group welcoming everyone\u201d to<br \/>\nstrangers, than \u201cjust to say\u201d I belong to a \u201ccommunity group\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>But I guess, I am just too late nor have the authority to<br \/>\ndeal with this.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>However, I feel it is important for the \u201ccommunity\u201d to know<br \/>\nwhat some few (if not only I) are thinking about this.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><strong>Sincerely in my prayer always with love,<br \/>\nTimothy Law<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this month's (April 2012) Redeemer Newsletter, I was disturbed by the article \"Introducing Community Groups: Fellowship Groups Get a New Name!\". It is more like \"fellowship groups get name downgrade\". My E-mail to the community leaders explains it all: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}