{"id":3704,"date":"2012-08-23T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2012-08-23T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:37:48","slug":"programs-busyness-and-faking-gods-work-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/programs-busyness-and-faking-gods-work-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs, Busyness, and Faking God&#8217;s Work in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever said to yourself, &#8220;Our church should have a program for that!&#8221;? Or maybe, &#8220;Our church has too many programs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 10:24-25 gives us an important command:\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.&#8221; This command and others like it mean that we <em>should<\/em> make plans to be together. Yet programs aren&#8217;t ministry, and there are good reasons to guard against over-programming.<\/p>\n<p>In this video from <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2012\/08\/02\/how-churches-fake-gods-work\/\">The Gospel Coalition Blog<\/a>, Ryan Kelly interviews Ray Ortlund and Darrin Patrick about the dangers of\u00c2\u00a0over-programming\u00c2\u00a0in the church.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45999184?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2012\/08\/02\/how-churches-fake-gods-work\/\">click here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to view this video]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever said to yourself, &#8220;Our church should have a program for that!&#8221;? Or maybe, &#8220;Our church&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/programs-busyness-and-faking-gods-work-in-the-church\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}