{"id":2132,"date":"2011-11-14T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:33:27","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-unified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-unified\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be unified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I came across this statement today<\/strong>. It struck me so strongly that I listened and listened until I could type it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It starts with the most influential&#8230; actually loving one another and scheduling appointments to get together and to work on \u00a0a friendship. Not just hosting events.<\/p>\n<p>When Christians think of unity they think of events. Events are nothing more than political statesmanship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Unity is really less about doing events together and it&#8217;s more about doing life together and building friendship.<em> &#8212; Mark Driscoll |\u00a0<a title=\"The Video...\" href=\"http:\/\/marshill.com\/media\/special\/redeem-cities-2010-mark-driscoll-session-2\" target=\"_blank\">Redeem Cities 2010: Mark Driscoll Session 2<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This applies to pastors working together.\u00a0<\/strong>And to everyone else in the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this statement today. It struck me so strongly that I listened and listened until I could type it. It starts with the most influential&#8230; actually loving one another and scheduling appointments to get together and to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-unified\/\">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":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godly-living","category-pastoral-ministry","category-relationships","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}