{"id":91,"date":"2004-10-07T21:10:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2004-10-07T21:10:31","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T02:10:31","slug":"mens-retreat-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/mens-retreat-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Retreat 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Bakker was at one of the workshops I attended for the men&#8217;s retreat our church sponsors this past weekend. He&#8217;s a very interesting guy, but he said a couple of things that really rang true with me.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst: <em>Friendship evangelism prostitutes both friendship and evangelism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase how he explained this, &#8220;how would you feel if someone befriended you for the sole purpose of converting you to his or her beliefs? You&#8217;d feel pretty hurt, maybe angry, wouldn&#8217;t you?&#8221; Not that there is any problem with befriending people, but what this world needs is people who are committed to loving others.<\/p>\n<p>Second: <em>Love people without an agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jay feels that Christians have failed, in particular, to reach out to entire groups of people in American culture, e.g. homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that Jay is a moral relativist. He obviously believes in absolute truth, but recognizes that the sort of way that &#8220;modern&#8221; Christian evangelists teach this fundamental concept is entirely at odds with the emerging post-modern culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Bakker was at one of the workshops I attended for the men&#8217;s retreat our church sponsors this past weekend. He&#8217;s a very interesting guy, but he said a couple of things that really rang true with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-1t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}