{"id":4041,"date":"2020-10-11T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2020-10-11T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T15:19:32","slug":"15-facts-about-personal-and-church-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2020\/15-facts-about-personal-and-church-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Facts About Personal and Church Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drifting<\/a><\/p>\n

Is your home congregation drifting? Maybe your entire denomination is adrift. Perhaps your concern has more to do with drift you see in individual people.<\/p>\n

It might even possible that someone told you that you or your church are drifting…and you are wondering what that means and what you are supposed to do about it!<\/p>\n

In the middle of the previous century, someone compiled these significant things about drifting: <\/p>\n

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  1. Drifting usually is not begun or even continued deliberately.<\/li>\n
  2. Drift often is not noticed by the one who is drifting.<\/li>\n
  3. Drifting is noticeable much more readily by those who are not drifting.<\/li>\n
  4. Warning must be given by those who notice the drifting.<\/li>\n
  5. Prayer sometimes is the only effective agent left in the rescuing task.<\/li>\n
  6. The one saved from drifting will be truly grateful and happy.<\/li>\n
  7. Drifting may become so pleasurable that the one drifting deliberately rejects all warnings.<\/li>\n
  8. A person who is drifting has a personal responsibility in his own rescue.<\/li>\n
  9. A person never drifts upstream.<\/li>\n
  10. A person drifts because it is easy.<\/li>\n
  11. A person drifts because he is not busy doing that which is best.<\/li>\n
  12. A person drifts via the things he likes.<\/li>\n
  13. You can’t stop the current from going downstream.<\/li>\n
  14. You can’t blame the stream for carrying you with the current.<\/li>\n
  15. Any worldly drift in the church cannot be blamed upon the church as God’s church.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The above list is not original with me, though I did shorten each item for use here. The full list comes from a booklet written by Clayton F. Yake and published in 1943 by Mennonite Publishing House. Read it in its entirety at my Anabaptists<\/i> site: Drifting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Fifteen significant things about drifting in individuals and in churches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"15 Facts About Personal and Church Drift","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[72,880],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-days-of-noah","tag-christianity","tag-life-lessons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-13b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}