{"id":42884,"date":"2014-03-03T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/menlo_park_presbyterians_john_ortberg_preaches_last_sunday-imagine\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:15:42","slug":"menlo_park_presbyterians_john_ortberg_preaches_last_sunday-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42884","title":{"rendered":"Menlo Park Presbyterian&#39;s John Ortberg Preaches Last Sunday&#8211;&#34;Imagine&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A writer named Cheryl Forbes once said people who live imaginative lives are what if? people. They respond to ideas and events with a what if? attitude. They behave in what if? ways.<\/p>\n<p>What if? is a big idea, as big as God, for it is the practice of God. That&#8217;s our God. Our God thinks, &#8220;What if I make a universe? What if I make people in my own image? What if, when they sin, I don&#8217;t give up on them?&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You guys all know next week we&#8217;re going to walk together through a really important vote, and we&#8217;re asking every member of our church to pray, because we&#8217;re seeking together to discern God&#8217;s leading for our church. We&#8217;re asking all of you who are members to come back next weekend. Come early. Come at 8:30. We have to get registered. We have a 9:30 service. We&#8217;re asking everybody to come early&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mppc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/transcripts\/140223_jortberg.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer named Cheryl Forbes once said people who live imaginative lives are what if? people. They respond to ideas and events with a what if? attitude. They behave in what if? ways. What if? is a big idea, as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42884\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,435,154,184,439,417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-presbyterian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}