{"id":1237,"date":"2011-07-01T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one-church.net\/crosseyedlife\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2011-07-03T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T22:27:24","slug":"intentionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/intentionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Intentionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor, one of my greatest joys is watching people in the church get excited, grow and develop deeper and deeper passions for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>This is most clearly evident in the lives of people who are retuning from mission work. Excitement produced by a little fear mixed with complete dependance, wrapped up in abnormal relationships and fellowship, all against the contrast of our lives back home.<\/p>\n<p>In 20+ years of ministry I have seen (and experienced) the &#8220;Just Got Back Home Blues&#8221; innumerable times. They are somewhat justified because the experience on the mission field was so real, so raw, so amazing that home by contrast seems fake, plastic or even irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago I was on mission in Europe and Asia and new that I&#8217;d be hitting the blues in just a few days. So, as I wrestled with myself on the rollercoaster ride that so often is personal spirituality, and I stumbled a crossed a word that nailed me to the wall&#8230; intentionality.<\/p>\n<p>So, whether you are coming back from a summer mission trip, heading out on one, or you are staying home and trying to realize that you live on a mission field already; please take time to view this short video and lets get intentional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">INTENTIONALITY<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<CENTER><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25875690?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/CENTER><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a pastor, one of my greatest joys is watching people in the church get excited, grow and develop deeper and deeper passions for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>This is most clearly evident in the lives of people who are retuning from mission work. Excitement produced by a little fear mixed with complete dependance, wrapped up in abnormal relationships and fellowship, all against the contrast of our lives back home.<\/p>\n<p>In 20+ years of ministry I have seen (and experienced) the &#8220;Just Got Back Home Blues&#8221; innumerable times. They are somewhat justified because the experience on the mission field was so real, so raw, so amazing that home by contrast seems fake, plastic or even irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago I was on mission in Europe and Asia and new that I&#8217;d be hitting the blues in just a few days. So, as I wrestled with myself on the rollercoaster ride that so often is personal spirituality, and I stumbled a crossed a word that nailed me to the wall&#8230; intentionality. <\/p>\n<p>So, whether you are coming back from a summer mission trip, heading out on one, or you are staying home and trying to realize that you live on a mission field already; please take time to view this short video and lets get intentional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,6,8],"tags":[401,402,403,56,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crosseyedlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}