{"id":9082,"date":"2010-10-11T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2010-10-11T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:27:26","slug":"someone-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/10\/11\/someone-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone to Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Contemporary Westerners, particularly 20-30somethings, have had the church world turned inside out in their face, and some of them have experienced the netherworld of the church personally. Instead of trusting the church, they are hesitant to trust \u2014 but they are willing to ponder trusting an authentic person.<\/p>\n<p>The one worth trusting, and the one to whom we can give our One.Life is Jesus. In \u00a0my next book, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0310277663?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0310277663\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0310277663\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/em><\/strong>, I make a case for Jesus being the One whom we can trust and follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/sites\/40\/2010\/09\/onelife_300x250banner_sm.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8751\" title=\"onelife_300x250banner_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/sites\/40\/2010\/09\/onelife_300x250banner_sm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary Westerners, particularly 20-30somethings, have had the church world turned inside out in their face, and some of them have experienced the netherworld of the church personally. Instead of trusting the church, they are hesitant to trust \u2014 but they are willing to ponder trusting an authentic person. 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