{"id":177,"date":"2025-09-30T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:45:37","slug":"renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/open-bible-on-table-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/open-bible-on-table-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/open-bible-on-table-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/open-bible-on-table-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/open-bible-on-table.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tilling the soil<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FPC-Local-Renewal.wav\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine a college student, mid-semester, giving an update to her mentor: \u201cI\u2019ve poured out my heart for God \u2013 I help at the soup kitchen, pick up trash, volunteer with the Fire Department, give spare change to beggars \u2013 and on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut,\u201d she said, \u201cthe needs keep growing, and I\u2019ve made no difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listening carefully, he offered this counsel \u2013 \u201cShift your effort to the inner person. Till the soil of hearts &amp; minds \u2013 oh yeah, start with yourself.\u201d That mentor was the beloved Henri Nouwen, a man of faith who lived what he preached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More on the topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some ideas for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalspirituality.org\/article\/methods-of-meditation-on-scripture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how to meditate<\/a>&nbsp;on Scripture, so your heart receives the truth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Civil Rights Movement kept and awareness of the need for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/faithandleadership.com\/what-we-can-learn-the-contemplative-heart-the-civil-rights-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inward transformation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conversatio.org\/contemplative-activism-a-transformative-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contemplation<\/a>&nbsp;must accompany service, or else we lose our joy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scielo.org.za\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1015-87582022000300016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deep dive<\/a>&nbsp;into Henri Nouwen\u2019s understanding of spiritual renewal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilling the soil Imagine a college student, mid-semester, giving an update to her mentor: \u201cI\u2019ve poured out my heart for God \u2013 I help at the soup kitchen, pick up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframedministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}