{"id":427,"date":"2026-09-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=427"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:44:52","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-14-cloudsbyJanFischerBachman-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Jan Fischer Bachman<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWelcome those who are weak in faith <\/em><br><em>but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.\u201d<\/em><br>&#8212; Romans 14:1 (NRSVue)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Paul\u2019s instruction in his letter to the Romans is to welcome not just people we don\u2019t like, or people who are different, but people we consider weak in faith. Perhaps in our cultural context today, we could also think of those people we consider weak in their moral commitments, or wrong in their political leanings, or misguided in their social stances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Bring to mind someone you think of in this category. Pray for the ability to welcome that person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWelcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.\u201d&#8212; Romans 14:1 (NRSVue) Activity: Paul\u2019s instruction in his letter to the Romans is to welcome not just people we don\u2019t like, or people who are different, but people we consider weak in faith. Perhaps in our cultural context today,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428,"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-427","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\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}