{"id":579,"date":"2018-02-28T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2018-02-12T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T12:48:48","slug":"chicago-chapter-20180228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/chicago-chapter-20180228\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Chapter 20180228"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"580\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/chicago-chapter-20180228\/chicago-1775878_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chicago-1775878_640.jpg?fit=640%2C426\" data-orig-size=\"640,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"chicago-1775878_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chicago-1775878_640.jpg?fit=640%2C426\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-580\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chicago-1775878_640.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chicago-1775878_640.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chicago-1775878_640.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Keith\u2019s group continues to make its way through the book of John.\u00a0 We anticipate finishing in March and then re-evaluating the direction the group is going as well as its purpose.\u00a0 Keith wants to challenge the group to consider the blessing of our religious freedom in America and how, for example, our Christian brothers and sisters in other countries risk their lives to be a part of a Bible Study.\u00a0 What would this mean to us and our willingness to commit to a group, or to serve regularly at a church?\u00a0 How should our faith change the way we look at our lives?\u00a0 In the last study Keith prepared on John 18, Keith contrasted the reactions of Jesus to the cup the Father gave Him, versus the reactions of Peter, Judas, and Pilate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melody&#8217;s group has been keeping one another accountable in prayer.\u00a0 We have been seeing great things happen within the group as God has been working through prayer- one member\u2019s husband&#8217;s heart change; a non-believer finds herself seeking God more; a younger Christian serving her husband.\u00a0 \u00a0We are contemplating birthing our group, as we have grown in size.\u00a0 \u00a0We pray that God will raise leaders for the two groups in the future if this is where God leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith\u2019s group continues to make its way through the book of John.\u00a0 We anticipate finishing in March and then re-evaluating the direction the group is going as well as its purpose.\u00a0 Keith wants to challenge the group to consider the blessing of our religious freedom in America and how, for example, our Christian brothers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-9l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chicago-1775878_640.jpg?fit=640%2C426","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}