{"id":2375,"date":"2019-09-02T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2019-11-29T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:33:12","slug":"jesus-im-fokus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/2019\/09\/02\/jesus-im-fokus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\nThe numbers confirm what we have felt in the leadership team: For the first time in the last\nin the past twelve years, the number of people attending the service did not\nincreased. Stagnation. That's not bad at all. And some people are\nif they can still keep track to some extent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But since we have committed ourselves to a\nwe cannot simply sit back and relax. As long as there are people\nwho have not yet found a home with the Father in heaven, the urgency of our mission remains.\nurgency of our mission. That is why we have once again invested heavily in projects\nprojects such as a new image, a new organisational structure, the continuation of our\nculture and the development of a mentoring network. The\ncapacities provided by our two interns were very helpful.\nhelpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly before the holidays, a member of the\ncourage and confronted me with the thought that we are in danger of losing sight of the\nwe are in danger of losing sight of the main thing.\nout of sight. I think it is great that this person addressed the matter.\nNot only patting each other on the back, but also admonishing each other,\ntakes a lot of courage and moves us forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, this danger does exist. We\nare doing everything in our power to ensure that this does not happen. We want to\nour focus on Jesus. For me personally, that is precisely a great\nconcern. That's why the idea came up to relieve the pastor with an executive director.\nrelieve the pastor. The longer these measures take effect, the more I see it as my responsibility and duty that we\nand I see it as my responsibility and duty that we as a whole staff team and as a congregation keep\ncongregation to keep Jesus in our sights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"<em>Dear brothers, when I first came to you, I did not\nI did not proclaim God's message to you with lofty words and grandiose\nand grandiose thoughts, but I had resolved to focus solely on Jesus Christ\nJesus Christ and his death on the cross.<\/em>\" (1 Corinthians\n2,2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We as church leadership and staff team have a whole yes to this statement of Paul.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Foreword from the seetal chile Poscht 09\/19<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers confirm what we have felt in the leadership team: For the first time in the last twelve years, worship attendance did not increase last year. Stagnation. That is not bad at all. And some people are happy when they can still keep track to some extent.  But since we have committed ourselves to a great mission, we may...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-herzschlag"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}