{"id":12631,"date":"2024-08-25T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=12631"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:29:02","slug":"a-shared-faith-3","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/a-shared-faith-3","title":{"rendered":"A Shared Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While communities based around politics, sports, BBQ and regional accents may help us find people to associate with as friends, they fall far short of the real community that God has in mind for us. How do we move from these \u201cpseudo-communities\u201d to real community?<\/p>\n<p>In the book of Acts, Luke described the \u201ctrue community\u201d of the first century church. He noted that they were marked by four \u201cdevotions.\u201d These devotions were: a shared faith, a shared family, a shared food, and a shared focus.<br \/>\nWe can experience this authentic community when we pursue these four devotions. In this first message in the series, we\u2019re going to focus on the first devotion, \u201cA Shared Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12632,"template":"","tags":[2401],"series":[2958],"scripture-book":[1311],"scripture-chapter":[1335],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-12631","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-small-groups","series-real-community","scripture-book-acts","scripture-chapter-1335","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/12631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/12631\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}