{"id":108,"date":"2008-05-02T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-05-26T22:43:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T05:43:43","slug":"by-the-manner-of-their-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"By the Manner of their Living?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was googling \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brethren Ordinances\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recently and this popped up as choice #5. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture on Flickr of a horse and buggy underneath a Wells Fargo bank sign in Shipshewana, IN (a very Amish town). The guy captioned the picture by saying something about there being a lot of Church of the Brethren congregations around and so when he looked them up online he was really impressed with what it shared on wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe linked the whole article! =)<\/p>\n

One of the comments to the picture said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ironic-I was just reading about the Church of the Brethren a few weeks ago. Considering how many times I have been to Shipsee I thought it was high time I learn a little about the people. It is all very interesting.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

See the image linked here: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/p2wy\/2373955480\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As our church youth group prepares to lead worship on Sunday with the theme of “By the manner of their living–” an Alexander Mack quote– I wonder just how the CoB is recognized in 2008. Is it our non-conformity, the manner of our living and loving, the building of authentic community, peacemaking? What niche are you finding in your various communities– not just for the sake of outreach and evangelism, but because of truly living God’s call to mission?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was googling \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brethren Ordinances\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recently and this popped up as choice #5. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture on Flickr of a horse and buggy underneath a Wells Fargo bank sign in Shipshewana, IN (a very Amish town). The guy captioned the picture by saying something about there being a lot of Church of the Brethren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-understanding-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}