{"id":4693,"date":"2022-06-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T23:07:59","slug":"the-great-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4693","title":{"rendered":"The Great Disconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barna<\/a>, the Christian polling organization, has just released a new factoid that I find depressing: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The vast majority of pastors (85%) believe missions is a mandate for all Christians.<\/em><\/li><li><em>Among practicing Christians, that number falls to 42 percent.<\/em><\/li><li><em>And for all Christians, it drops all the way to 25 percent.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-8.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-8.png?resize=474%2C478&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-8.png?w=865&amp;ssl=1 865w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-8.png?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-8.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-8.png?resize=768%2C775&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They call it the Great Disconnect, and I find it sad because Jesus said, &#8220;The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few,&#8221; and there are all those potential laborers that don&#8217;t even know they&#8217;re supposed to be laboring! On mission!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s the problem? It can&#8217;t be that it&#8217;s not a good <em>message<\/em>. It&#8217;s the best message ever, as I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a few days ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem could be that we have failed to equip people to carry out the mission in their day-to-day lives. I write about this often. Mission does NOT mean going to some foreign country although some are called to do that. Mission does NOT mean &#8220;going door to door&#8221; as some believe and have been taught. On mission could be as simple as the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">simple action plan<\/a>\u00a0about which I wrote in my first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?page_id=156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Join the Adventure!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Be there<\/a><\/li><li>Pay attention<\/li><li>Do what you can<\/li><li>Tell the truth<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debbie Friley illustrated this action plan on a bicycle ride, as I wrote on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4627\" target=\"_blank\">May 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s doable by ordinary people &#8211; Jesus demonstrated that in his choice of the twelve. As the woman at the well demonstrated &#8211; a very ordinary woman with a bad reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, \u201cCome, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?\u201d They went out of the town and were coming to him. (John 4.28 &#8211; 30, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barna, the Christian polling organization, has just released a new factoid that I find depressing: The vast majority of pastors (85%) believe missions is a mandate for all Christians. Among practicing Christians, that number falls to 42 percent. And for all Christians, it drops all the way to 25 percent. They call it the Great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Great Disconnect<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1dH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}