{"id":4255,"date":"2011-12-06T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T03:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2011-12-06T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:40:09","slug":"tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=4255","title":{"rendered":"Tough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim and I have had many conversations lately about our church and the surprise of our worship pastor, Christian, leaving so suddenly.\u00a0 We both feel strongly that this is where we are meant to be right now and are committed to our church and pastor.\u00a0 And I’ve come to really enjoy being a part of the worship team–I feel like I’m helping contribute my talents.\u00a0\u00a0 So we’re left reeling after yesterday’s discovery.\u00a0 I can’t help but feel a bit hurt by his decision to leave without giving a reason.\u00a0 It’s hard when you think you’re friends with someone and then are left with the realization that maybe we didn’t know him as well as we thought.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet I think our pastor nailed it on the head when he said this today, (in an email sent to the church):<\/p>\n

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While his resignation was stated without reason, we believe God is sovereign and that <\/span><\/p>\n

this is the best step for both Meadow and Christian.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that’s really the point to remember.\u00a0 God is sovereign.\u00a0 He can work through any situation at any time and in any way.\u00a0 My prayer is that we can stay unified as a church and remember what’s most important–sharing God’s love and the good news with as many people as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim and I have had many conversations lately about our church and the surprise of our worship pastor, Christian, leaving so suddenly.\u00a0 We both feel strongly that this is where we are meant to be right now and are committed to our church and pastor.\u00a0 And I’ve come to really enjoy being a part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}