{"id":39672,"date":"2026-03-19T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=39672"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:04:06","slug":"2026-care","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2026-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Us to Care and Not to Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe pastor&#8217;s primary assignment is to call men and women to worship. When we say \u2018Let us worship God,\u2019 as most of us do at least once a week, we stop everyone in their tracks, and shut them up for an hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>To my knowledge, no one has ever commented on the incalculable good that pastors do simply by getting hundreds of thousands of sinners off the streets for an hour a week and keeping them quiet. Gossip diminishes to a mere trickle, the crime rate plummets, there are fewer traffic accidents, air and water pollution decreases.<\/p>\n<p>The single most obviously significant feature of worship is that we aren&#8217;t doing anything. We aren&#8217;t in charge. We aren&#8217;t making anything happen\u2026.The most important thing that is going on right now is what God is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ Eugene H. Peterson<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39673 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/worship.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/worship.png 526w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/worship-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/worship-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/worship-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/worship-180x180.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe pastor&#8217;s primary assignment is to call men and women to worship. When we say \u2018Let us worship God,\u2019 as most of us do at least once a week, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-39672","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/39672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/39672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39674,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/39672\/revisions\/39674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39672"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=39672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}