{"id":568,"date":"2010-02-23T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:23:23","slug":"no-more-pie-in-the-sky-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/no-more-pie-in-the-sky-church\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Pie-in-the-Sky Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of <a title=\"Community, Worship, Mission, by Ryan Kelly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/FEB_21_2010.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s sermon<\/a> about the State of the CommUnion and the growing role that Home Groups play at DSC, <a title=\" Tools Email to a Friend Print Version Bookmark \/ Share Subscribe to Desiring God podcasts, feeds and email subscriptions.  From the series: Romans: The Greatest Letter Ever Written  From the topic: Small Groups Related Resources      * How Christ Enables the Church to Upbuild Itself in Love (Sermons)     * The Sacrifice of a Shared Life (Sermons)     * Clusters of Hope (Articles)     * Alone in a Big Church (Sermons)     * Strengthen Each Other's Hands in God (Sermons)  Related Products \tGood Fences, Bad Fences, and the Glory of Christ (MP3 Audio CD)  No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, One Body in Christ, John Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/TopicIndex\/58_Small_Groups\/66_No_Condemnation_in_Christ_Jesus_One_Body_in_Christ\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is a great message by John Piper, titled &#8220;No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, One Body in Christ.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The main thrust of what Piper says here is that we, the church, are one body in Jesus Christ with special ways of serving each other, but this is all &#8220;pie-in-the-sky theory without smaller groups.&#8221; Here is one classic Piper-esque quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, that God would turn our small groups into invincible platoons of faith and love and witness and service. Oh, that when the next calamity strikes perhaps nearer to home, every suffering and grieving saint at Bethlehem would be surrounded by a band of wounded healers lavishing the many-colored grace of God on each other and pressing on!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, One Body in Christ, by John Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/TopicIndex\/58_Small_Groups\/66_No_Condemnation_in_Christ_Jesus_One_Body_in_Christ\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of Sunday&#8217;s sermon about the State of the CommUnion and the growing role that Home Groups&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/no-more-pie-in-the-sky-church\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}