{"id":4269,"date":"2024-07-21T19:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2024-07-21T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:08:45","slug":"july-21st-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"July 21st Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good afternoon, Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16.000 + Lutheran Youth and Adult Leaders met, learned, prayed, served, and worshiped in New Orleans this past week.&nbsp; The energy in the space, and throughout the city, was palpable.&nbsp; The four of us who attended look forward to sharing with you in the near future what we learned, and what this experience was like.&nbsp; We are grateful for the prayers, and for the financial support, of St. Matthew as we went to this amazing event!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing we were told many times is that what we experienced we need to take home with us.&nbsp; Even though we will not be in worship with 16,000, we need to worship.&nbsp; Even though we will not be serving with 16,000, we still need to serve, in part because as we serve around the nation we make a greater impact than when we serve in one city for one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we did not have 16,000 in worship today, still we came into the presence of the Most High God to offer thanks and praise for our salvation through Jesus.&nbsp; A link to the recording of the 10:15 service is available here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Nx-xZvBZ45Qi27pCglh4jyQ-kjQs4RSy\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Nx-xZvBZ45Qi27pCglh4jyQ-kjQs4RSy\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May we all see the world with the eyes of Jesus &#8211; living like Jesus, loving like Jesus, serving like Jesus.<br>Pastor Karl Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, Church, 16.000 + Lutheran Youth and Adult Leaders met, learned, prayed, served, and worshiped in New Orleans this past week.&nbsp; The energy in the space, and throughout the city, was palpable.&nbsp; The four of us who attended look forward to sharing with you in the near future what we learned, and what this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_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,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/072124.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-16R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}