{"id":1189,"date":"2016-01-05T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2016-01-05T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:32:04","slug":"how-do-you-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Worship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1071_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1071_sm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1071_sm\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1071_sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1071_sm.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When was the last time you asked a new friend where they\u00a0attend\u00a0church? \u00a0Or even offered your place of worship as an option to a colleague? \u00a0As America has become increasingly secular, church is not the common ground it once was, but religiosity and the need for\u00a0community and personal transformation remain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Oppenheimer for the New York Times\u00a0shares a look into the world of CrossFit, the popular workout program and the ways in which it compares to the ritual of church, citing a study by Harvard Divinity School Students, <em>How We Gather. \u00a0CrossFit As Church?!<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/28\/us\/some-turn-to-church-others-to-crossfit.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=us&amp;module=NextInCollection&amp;region=Footer&amp;pgtype=article&amp;version=column&amp;rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fbeliefs\">When Some Turn to Church, Others Go to CrossFit<\/a><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read the full article and then consider, are you still a regular church attender or have you found other ways in your community to join with others, serve and find personal fulfillment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you asked a new friend where they\u00a0attend\u00a0church? \u00a0Or even offered your place of worship as an option to a colleague? \u00a0As America has become increasingly secular, church is not the common ground it once was, but religiosity and the need for\u00a0community and personal transformation remain. Mark Oppenheimer for the New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Do You Worship?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[500,504,503,507,502,506,505,501],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-church","tag-community","tag-crossfit","tag-harvard-divinity-school","tag-religiosity","tag-secular","tag-serving","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}