{"id":5,"date":"2007-08-24T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/?p=5"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:14:01","slug":"08-institutions-and-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/08-institutions-and-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"08 &#8211; Institutions and Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basicmm.com\/church\/08-institutions-and-labels.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/podcast.gif\" alt=\"Podcast!\" width=\"70\" height=\"22\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22\"><\/a>Do we really have to label everything?  Must every facet of life be institutionalized?  Those are some queustions raised in this chapter.  We take things that are meant to be relational &#8211; like the church, which is the body of Christ, a family &#8211; and we turn it into some<i>thing<\/i>.  An entity that exists on its own &#8211; even with <i>the church<\/i>.  Is it really possible to live life without needing to create a structure, an institution, or labels for doing so?<\/p>\n<p>If you like what you hear, you can purchase the printed book using the link at the top of this page, or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/gregshead.net\/bookstore\">GregsHead.net Bookstore<\/a> to view all of my books.  A free PDF version of Here&#8217;s The Church is also available at that link.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Podcast icon to download, or listen.  Or, use the feeds to the right to subscribe in iTunes or your favorite RSS reader.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/audio\/08-institutions-and-labels.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/audio\/08-institutions-and-labels.mp3\">https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/audio\/08-institutions-and-labels.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we really have to label everything? Must every facet of life be institutionalized? Those are some queustions raised in this chapter. We take things that are meant to be relational &#8211; like the church, which is the body of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/08-institutions-and-labels\/\"><em>Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobook-chapters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NRhP-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregshead.net\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}