{"id":2024,"date":"2017-03-02T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2017-03-02T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:37:39","slug":"ubf-good-in-theory-but-not-in-practice-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/ubf-good-in-theory-but-not-in-practice-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubf good in theory but not in practice part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still stand for what I believed ubf was involved in when I became seriously committed to the group. \u00a0I believed ubf was about helping people on a grassroots level not a denomination with a top down hierarchy. \u00a0I am committed to the mission I believed ubf was about and as such i must oppose the old guard. \u00a0If i have time i will explain what I admire about ubf as advertised and how ubf as practiced is often contrary to the advertisement. \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">For now I will just say if we reached out to our neighbors and had sincere dialogues open to each other&#8217;s viewpoints and willing to help with shared goals the world might be a better place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-15999\" class=\"text Ps-119-100 psuedo-selection\">I have more understanding than the elders,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-119-100 psuedo-selection\">for I obey your precepts psalm 119:100 niv<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was obeying the precepts as advertised that got me in trouble with the group<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An introduction to possible future essays about how UBF as advertised is sometimes good and why we should live up to such advertisement in the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}