{"id":11273,"date":"2016-09-10T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=11273"},"modified":"2016-09-10T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:39:47","slug":"saturday-short-explore-god-across-richmond-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=11273","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Short – Explore God – Tackling the Hard Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who is God? …Really. What difference does it make for me to believe in God or not? Isn’t my path set anyway? In the religion of my parents?<\/div>\n
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We have so many questions as we go through life. I have had my share…and yet still come back to the profound difference God has made in my life… Even in a world that is broken, we see glimpses of beauty, and order, and love outside ourselves. Glimpses of God’s touch and movement in our lives and throughout the world.<\/div>\n
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Wisdom is to seek answers to our questions. To wrestle with them with friends and family we love and are sure of their love for us. Or strangers even who appreciate an opportunity to sort out these questions together…respectfully and decently.<\/div>\n
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Over the next seven weeks in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area, a large group of churches (of various denominations and leanings) are cooperating in tackling some of our questions<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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The Explore God<\/em> website <\/a>will help you find a Richmond area church or discussion group focusing on these questions. Also the same website has videos, articles, and resources by topic <\/a>if you want to explore on your own a bit. Explore God<\/em> can also be followed on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My plan is to join the discussion at Movement Church<\/a> tomorrow (Sunday morning) and then gather with a small group during the week continuing to sort out answers to these questions. No pressure kind of experience. Very stranger-friendly…meaning, no in-your-face weirdness.<\/p>\n

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**Please note – Movement now has 2 gatherings on Sunday mornings – one at 9:00am and one at 11:00am.**<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re like me, you have questions…even if you think you’ve already sorted out the answers yourself. For me, as the world and culture change…and as I get older, my questions have changed. The God I’ve come to know can handle our questions and meets us in the answers, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who is God? …Really. What difference does it make for me to believe in God or not? Isn’t my path set anyway? In the religion of my parents? We have so many questions as we go through life. I have had my share…and yet still come back to the profound difference God has made in … Continue reading Saturday Short – Explore God – Tackling the Hard Questions<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_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}},"categories":[926,1447,799,2126,1705,50,910,1435,18,317,2611,3574],"tags":[1490,461,195,3729,265,1836,1835,2021,3730,2957,681,1891,368],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attending-or-focus","category-bible","category-church-2","category-community","category-conversations","category-god","category-gospel","category-growing-up","category-jesus","category-lessons-learned","category-love-your-neighbor","category-saturday-short","tag-rva","tag-bible","tag-christianity","tag-explore-god","tag-faith","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-movement-church","tag-q-a","tag-questions","tag-religion","tag-richmond","tag-suffering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-2VP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11282,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions\/11282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}