{"id":5586,"date":"2013-10-22T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markdroberts\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:27:37","slug":"across-the-dividing-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markdroberts\/2013\/10\/22\/across-the-dividing-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Dividing Lines"},"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>At <em>Christianity Today<\/em>\u2018s This Is Our City project, they\u2019re asking a provocative question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/thisisourcity\/7thcity\/can-urban-and-suburban-christians-agree.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">can urban and suburban Christians agree<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">One of the most powerful and effective promises given to the Church is the power of agreement. A supernatural force is released from heaven and revealed on earth when believers decide to faithfully and intimately agree in spirit, prayer, purpose and power. When this level of agreement is reached, Jesus promises that anything that is asked will be done by the Father. On the surface, Christian ministry agreement and partnership would look like a very simple and easy task. But truly agreeing, across all the differences that can easily separate us, is anything but easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/thisisourcity\/7thcity\/can-urban-and-suburban-christians-agree.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the whole thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Christianity Today\u2018s This Is Our City project, they\u2019re asking a provocative question: can urban and suburban Christians agree? 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