{"id":278,"date":"2007-11-05T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/the-roady-churc"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:44:24","slug":"the-roady-churc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-roady-churc.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Roady Church&#8221; goes downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007_whirligig_festival_008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 247px; height: 355px; border: 0px;\" title=\"2007_whirligig_festival_008\" alt=\"2007_whirligig_festival_008\" src=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007_whirligig_festival_008.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <em>&#8220;Jesus replied, &#8220;We must go to the nearby towns, so that I can tell the good news to those people. This is why I have come.&#8221;<\/em> (Mark 1:38 CEV)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Therefore go&#8221;<\/em> (Matthew 28:19).<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday we had to tear down our equipment immediately after the second service ended and load it up to carry it downtown for the Whirlygig Festival. That was a tight time crunch. Tear down after 12:15 and be on the blue stage on Nash Street playing at 1:15. Not many churches could do that.<\/p>\n<p>Without bragging too much, we are the kind of church that can. We&#8217;re the &#8220;Roady Church!&#8221; We&#8217;ve been setting up and tearing down for over 15 years every Sunday. Sometimes being portable has its advantages. When we say the church is not the steeple, it&#8217;s the people&#8230; our people get it! They understand that the church is them. They also understand that the church is on mission. We&#8217;re not a location to visit, we&#8217;re a people on the move!<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday we took the worship downtown and it was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of more ways to take the church into the streets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jesus replied, &#8220;We must go to the nearby towns, so that I can tell the good news to those people. This is why I have come.&#8221; (Mark 1:38 CEV) &#8220;Therefore go&#8221; (Matthew 28:19). This past Sunday we had to tear down our equipment immediately after the second service ended and load it up to carry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}