{"id":11258,"date":"2022-04-06T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carrickfergusbaptist.com\/site\/?p=11258"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:33:00","slug":"love-your-church-week-1-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrickfergusbaptist.com\/site\/blog\/2022\/04\/love-your-church-week-1-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Church &#8211; Week 1 &#8211; Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, by now you will have been able to receive your copy of &#8216;Love your Church&#8217; by Tony Merida which we are hoping to read as a church over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>There are some resources that are provided by The Good Book Company that you may find useful as you read the chapter for each week.<\/p>\n<p>There are worksheets that provide some questions that you may be interested in thinking through in your own personal study of the chapters. <a href=\"https:\/\/carrickfergusbaptist.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Love-your-church-Worksheets.pdf\">Love your church -Worksheets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also a pdf of the discussion guide that you will find at the back of the book that you may like to print off if you decide to use these in your prayer and study groups. <a href=\"https:\/\/carrickfergusbaptist.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Love-your-church-Discussion-Guide.pdf\">Love your church-Discussion Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tgzdfda7OfE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, by now you will have been able to receive your copy of &#8216;Love your Church&#8217; by Tony Merida which we are hoping to read as a church over the next few months. 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