{"id":458,"date":"2009-04-09T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:06:16","slug":"ortlund-old-time-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Ortlund, Old Time Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out Ray Ortlund’s post, “I Remember When.”\u009d <\/a>It is not simple nostalgia but a warning about “chronological snobbery”\u009d (to use C S Lewis’s term). There is much to contemplate in the post. Here is just one excerpt:<\/p>\n

I remember when churches were not commodities but communities. I grew up in a spiritual neighborhood, where the adults took responsibility to care for the next generation. I lived among hundreds of spiritual aunts and uncles who loved me, told me about Jesus, taught me the Bible, corrected me when I got out of line and generally sacrificed for me so that I could grow up to be a man of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us be such communities of faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out Ray Ortlund’s post, “I Remember When.”\u009d It is not simple nostalgia but a warning about “chronological snobbery”\u009d (to use C S Lewis’s term). There is much to contemplate in the post. Here is just one excerpt: I remember when churches were not commodities but communities. I grew up in a spiritual neighborhood, where …<\/p>\n

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