{"id":97,"date":"2008-12-10T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-12-10T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:28:02","slug":"what-is-a-healthy-church-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2008\/12\/10\/what-is-a-healthy-church-member\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Healthy Church Member?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thabiti Anyabwile is pastor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbc.org.ky\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Baptist of Grand Cayman<\/a>. We were privileged to have him open Haggai 1 for us in early 2007 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eqotw.org\/audio\/20070204-thabiti.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is the audio).\u00a0 He also blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/purechurch.blogspot.com\/\">Pure Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have benefited a great deal from using his latest book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossway.org\/product\/9781433502125\" target=\"_blank\">What is a Healthy Church Member?<\/a>, <\/em>in our small groups this fall. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/dgcc\/healthychurchmemberstudyguide.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Here is the study guide<\/a> Fred and I developed for our groups. I hope a number of other churches will use this book to raise up healthy church members &#8211; and thus healthy churches &#8211; to God&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thabiti Anyabwile is pastor of First Baptist of Grand Cayman. We were privileged to have him open Haggai 1 for us in early 2007 (here is the audio).\u00a0 He also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[71,1512,1546,1681],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-9-marks","tag-study-guide","tag-thabiti-anyabwile","tag-what-is-a-healthy-church-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}