{"id":409,"date":"2005-10-09T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2005-10-10T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T16:27:51","slug":"good-newsbad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/09\/good-newsbad-news","title":{"rendered":"Good News\/Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m not out preaching, our family attends <a href=\"http:\/\/pathwaypaloalto.com\">Pathway Church in Palo Alto<\/a>. Pathway is an 8\u2011month old church plant. Good things are happening there\u2013a Mormon lady converted last week, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>But anyone who\u2019s ever started a ministry from scratch knows that some days are just painful to be a part of. Things go wrong that you would never imagine could go&nbsp;wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This was one such&nbsp;day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Good News:<\/strong> guest shows up based entirely on our internet ads.<br> <strong>Bad News:<\/strong> while chatting with the pastor before the service she is struck solidly in the neck by a frisbee and has to go home, take some medicine, and lie&nbsp;down.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Good News:<\/strong> I brought five students from Stanford to check out the church. <br><strong>Bad News:<\/strong> every single one of our regulars who wasn\u2019t helping  missed church today. Every. Single. One. During worship it was me and the students in the congregation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Good News:<\/strong> the songs were really cool songs. <br><strong>Bad News:<\/strong> two of the microphones stopped working between the sound check and the start of service and somehow the keyboard became possessed by a demon. At least, that\u2019s my best guess. It sure moaned as though possessed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Good News:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/churchgatherer.blogspot.com\/\">Scott<\/a>\u2019s sermon was thoughtful and well-presented. <br><strong>Bad News:<\/strong> the translation that was shown on the screen was different from the translation Scott was reading despite being purportedly the same (further investigation reveals <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Living_Translation\">there are two editions of the New Living Translation<\/a>\u2013our pew Bibles are the first and our computer Bible is the second\u2013who knew?). The effect was disconcerting and distracted from an otherwise excellent message.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m not one to hyperspiritualize things, but I see a correlation between the success our church has been enjoying lately and all the \u201cnobody\u2019s fault\u201d glitches that popped up today. The Bible teaches us that we have an enemy, and sometimes he leaves scat behind.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly going to be one of those services we spend a lot of time laughing about in a few years\u2026 especially the frisbee in the neck bit. How random is&nbsp;that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m not out preaching, our family attends Pathway Church in Palo Alto. Pathway is an 8\u2011month old church plant. Good things are happening there\u2013a Mormon lady converted last week, for instance. But anyone who\u2019s ever started a ministry from scratch knows that some days are just painful to be a part of. Things go \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/09\/good-newsbad-news\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cGood News\/Bad News\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assemblies-of-god","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}