{"id":378,"date":"2008-04-21T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T21:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple.user3.archhosting.net\/members\/?p=378"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T22:44:24","slug":"going-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2008\/04\/going-home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Home Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wolfe wrote a classic book entitled, <em>You Can\u2019t Go Home Again<\/em>. The idea is that things change. If you are away and return, it is never the same. The Hebrew children spent forty futile years trying to go home again. Their experience, recorded in Numbers, is summarized with the cry, \u201cLet us select a leader and return to Egypt. (Num. 14:4)\u201d So is it true that we can\u2019t go home again? Yes, if home is a place. I spent last weekend with 65 people to whom and with whom I ministered approximately thirty years ago. We told many of the same stories, even if embellished a bit, laughed at the same jokes, grieved over the same recollections of sadness. True, it wasn\u2019t the same, but for a little while, it was close enough. It was close enough because ultimately home for Christians revolves, not around place, but around people. That being true, one of the awesome things about the family of God is that you can go home again. Anytime you\u2019re around God\u2019s people, you\u2019re around family and any time you\u2019re with family, you\u2019re home. For a few hours at least, it was good to be home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wolfe wrote a classic book entitled, You Can\u2019t Go Home Again. The idea is that things change. If you are away and return, it is never the same. The Hebrew children spent forty futile years trying to go home again. Their experience, recorded in Numbers, is summarized with the cry, \u201cLet us select a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}