{"id":3707,"date":"2025-02-16T18:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2025-02-16T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:12:30","slug":"we-are-a-simple-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/we-are-a-simple-body\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are a Simple Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We view the church as a group of people rather than an organization or a building. Therefore, the focus of our finances reflects that. We intentionally keep costs low so that our budget can be directed at ministering directly to people.  We also financially support other Christian organizations outside of our fellowship.  We focus on making the Gospel of Grace clear and the person of Jesus center. We do not want anything we do to distract from pursuing God&#8217;s presence and purpose. Rather than focusing on large buildings, impressive services, or countless programs, we focus on our relationship with God and relationships with each other.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4581\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3707-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WeAreASimpleBody.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WeAreASimpleBody.mp3\">https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WeAreASimpleBody.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WeAreASimpleBody.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3707-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WeAreASimpleBody.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"WeAreASimpleBody.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We view the church as a group of people rather than an organization or a building. Therefore, the focus of[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","category-troy-miedema"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53JSl-XN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gbfbastrop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}