{"id":9430,"date":"2025-02-16T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2025-02-16T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:11:13","slug":"a-shelter-from-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9430","title":{"rendered":"A Shelter from the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Zahnd3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Zahnd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Zahnd3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Zahnd3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A shelter from the storm is a beautiful metaphor of the church.  It&#8217;s not an angry church on a crusade for political causes or a detached church disseminating dogma to a disinterested culture.  Instead, try imagining a place where it&#8217;s always safe and warm &#8211; this is the church as a shelter from the storm.  It&#8217;s immensely appealing.  And it&#8217;s the very metaphor Jesus leaves lingering in our imagination as he concludes his Sermon on the Mount.  In his summation Jesus tells us that if we will live his teaching, we will build a house on the rock-solid foundation that will stand when the rains fall, the winds blow, and the floods rise.  To say it plainly, a church that lives the Sermon on the Mount will be a shelter from the storm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Brian Zahnd, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/beauty_will_save_the_world.html\">Beauty Will Save the World<\/a><\/em>, p. 182-183<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Cloudy sky over lake, South Riding, Virginia, December 30, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shelter from the storm is a beautiful metaphor of the church. It&#8217;s not an angry church on a crusade for political causes or a detached church disseminating dogma to a disinterested culture. Instead, try imagining a place where it&#8217;s always safe and warm &#8211; this is the church as a shelter from the storm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,36,2,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-community","category-inspiration","category-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}