{"id":27069,"date":"2014-11-19T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27069"},"modified":"2014-11-19T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:05:43","slug":"ice-age-seeker-sensitive-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/11\/ice-age-seeker-sensitive-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Ice Age Seeker-Sensitive Church"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-27070\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/11\/iceage_church.jpg\" alt=\"iceage_church\" width=\"442\" height=\"294\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/searchingfortomsawyer\/2014\/11\/confessions-of-a-former-seeker-church-pastor\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Wright<\/a> shared the image above. 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