{"id":370,"date":"2026-05-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=370"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:51:03","slug":"one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/one\/","title":{"rendered":"One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/05\/26-05-18-DSC_0720-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/05\/26-05-18-DSC_0720-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/05\/26-05-18-DSC_0720-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/05\/26-05-18-DSC_0720-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/05\/26-05-18-DSC_0720-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x243.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/05\/26-05-18-DSC_0720-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cHoly Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, <\/em><br><em><strong>so that they may be one, as we are one<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> <br>(John 17:11b, NRSVue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Many becoming one through Christ is a theme of the New Testament scriptures, and in this passage is Jesus\u2019 prayer for his followers. There are different ways to understand the Christian idea of many becoming one\u2014as unity of purpose, or having the same spirit, perhaps alignment of values and behavior, living together in community, or even uniformity of belief. How do you understand it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHoly Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one\u201d (John 17:11b, NRSVue). Activity Many becoming one through Christ is a theme of the New Testament scriptures, and in this passage is Jesus\u2019 prayer for his followers. There are different ways to understand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat","tag-tiny-retreats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}