{"id":4822,"date":"2017-09-20T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:38:11","slug":"faith-on-a-human-scale-pastor-mandy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2017\/09\/20\/faith-on-a-human-scale-pastor-mandy-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Faith on a Human Scale&#8221; \u2013 Pastor Mandy Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/09.20.17--MandySmithChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p>What if it\u2019s not our job, as Christians, to have all the answers?<br \/>\nWhat if our greatest task is to daily rely on God?<br \/>\nWhat if our reliance on God, not our answers, is what will transform the world?<br \/>\nAre we willing to let them see us in need? Or only in strength?<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is lead pastor of University Christian Church, a campus and neighborhood congregation with its own fair-trade cafe in Cincinnati, Ohio.\u00a0 She is a contributing editor for <em>Leadership Journal<\/em> and the author of <em>Making a Mess and Meeting God<\/em>. Her latest book is <em> The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry <\/em>(IVP).\u00a0 Mandy and her husband Jamie,\u00a0 a New Testament Professor at Cincinnati Chiristian University, live with their two kids in a little house where the teapot is always warm.\u00a0 She is also a fine artist and the creator of &#8220;The Collect,&#8221; a citywide trash-to-art project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/09.20.17--MandySmithChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>What if it\u2019s not our job, as Christians, to have all the answers? What if our greatest task is to daily rely on God? What if our reliance on God, not our answers, is what will transform the world? Are we willing to let them see us in need? Or only in strength? Originally from....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[4973],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel","tag-mandy-smith","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}