{"id":5862,"date":"2018-09-26T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:58:42","slug":"jesus-was-the-original-weirdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>If you\u2019re open to the renewal of your mind by the Holy Spirit, and if such renewal serves the purpose of making us more like Jesus, then you need to brace yourself\u2014you\u2019re going to get more weird!<br \/>\nThat\u2019s because Jesus was the original weirdo.<br \/>\nThe Gospel accounts continue to defy the church\u2019s best efforts throughout history to turn Jesus into some kind of tame, dignified religious leader. Again and again, the Gospels reveal Jesus to be a strange and unlikely messiah. So strange and unlikely, in fact, <strong>that those who were searching the signs most intently for the coming of the promised king completely missed him.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis perspective is presented most powerfully by Mark\u2019s Gospel, which begins in rather dramatic fashion with a wild and crazy John the Baptist, dressed in camel\u2019s hair clothing and subsisting on a diet of locusts and wild honey, screaming at his listeners, \u201cAfter me comes the one more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit\u201d (Mark 1:7-8).<br \/>\nIn other words, \u201cIf you think I\u2019m weird, wait until you get a load of the guy who\u2019s coming!\u201d<br \/>\nWhen we do meet that guy, he definitely lives up to John\u2019s introduction. In chapter 1 alone, Jesus is baptized under a torn sky and a descending Holy Spirit, is sent out into the wilderness to be with wild beasts while angels ministered to him, drives out demons and heals all manner of sicknesses. Mark 1 gives the impression of a wild Messiah wandering the highways and byways of Israel accompanied by wild animals and angels and with demons and sickness flying off in every direction.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, we start to get an impression of how the religious leaders saw him. Not just as weird, but dangerous.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Mark 2:6-7, he\u2019s accused of blasphemy for claiming to be able to forgive sins.<\/li>\n<li>In Mark 2:16, aspersions are cast on him because he was socializing with sinful people and Roman collaborators.<\/li>\n<li>In Mark 2:23-24, he is called a law-breaker.<\/li>\n<li>In Mark 3:20-21, his own family try to apprehend him because they believed he was insane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And soon after (Mark 3:22) the teachers of the law interpret his behavior not as insanity, but demon possession.<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t get very far into Mark\u2019s Gospel without having to come to terms with the out-and-out strangeness of Jesus.<br \/>\nYears ago, a publisher asked the gothic rock singer-songwriter Nick Cave to write an introduction to Mark\u2019s Gospel. At first, Cave was uncertain, recalling Jesus as the \u201cdecaf of worship\u201d he heard about in his childhood Anglican Church.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>\u00a0 But to his surprise, <strong>the Jesus he discovered in Mark\u2019s Gospel wasn\u2019t a wishy-washy Christ, but a wild Messiah.<\/strong> He explains,<br \/>\nThe Christ that emerges from <em>Mark<\/em>, tramping through the haphazard events of His life, had a ringing intensity about Him that I could not resist . . . The Christ that the Church offers us, the bloodless, placid \u2018Saviour\u2019\u2014the man smiling benignly at a group of children, or calmly hanging from the cross\u2014denies Christ His potent, creative sorrow or His boiling anger that confronts us so forcefully in Mark. This denies Christ His humanity, offering up a figure that we can perhaps \u2018praise\u2019, but never relate to.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5755\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.thedisciplemaker.org\/keepchristianityweird_frost\/?utm_source=Disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=Jesus%20was%20original%20weirdo&amp;utm_campaign=Keep%20Christianity%20Weird\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/Keep-Christianity-Weird-833x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the book to read more.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIf the renewal of the mind by the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to the gospel and shapes us to become more like Jesus, then it follows we, too, should become more weird the more Christlike we become. Nick Cave concludes,<br \/>\nMerely to praise Christ in His Perfectness, keeps us on our knees, with our heads pitifully bent. Christ came as a liberator. Christ understood that we as humans were for ever held to the ground by the pull of gravity\u2014our ordinariness, our mediocrity\u2014and it was through His example that He gave our imaginations the freedom to rise and to fly. In short, to be Christ-like.<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a><br \/>\nI sometimes despair at the advice given to Christians by some of their teachers and leaders, cautioning them not to be weird. Be different, they say, but don\u2019t be a nut. Don\u2019t be strange. But <strong>any cursory reading of the Gospels reveal Jesus to be very strange,<\/strong> even to his strongest supporters and closest friends.<br \/>\nHe was a homeless, unmarried, thirtysomething rabbi who recruited a bunch of young (some still in their teens), uneducated boys to hit the road with him, preaching the coming of the Kingdom and calling on people to repent of their sins.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/walking-legs-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"461\" \/><br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t mince words. He told the truth, even when it made people hate him. Especially when it made powerful people hate him.<br \/>\nHe fraternized with prostitutes, extortionists, collaborators, zealots, and those euphemistically referred to as \u201csinners\u201d\u2014ordinary, irreligious people. He was unconcerned by what his friendship with such people would suggest to others.<br \/>\nWhen he taught people, he didn\u2019t quote directly from the Torah. While he did refer to \u201cthe Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms\u201d (as in Luke 24:44, for example), he didn\u2019t do so as normal religious teachers, which was to provide commentary on specific ancient texts. On the one occasion when he came closest to doing so, in Luke 4 where he reads Isaiah 61:1-2 and announces, \u201cToday this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing,\u201d <strong>it literally caused a riot.<\/strong><br \/>\nInstead of telling stories about Moses or Abraham, he told them about housewives, farmers, business managers, and disrespectful sons. To describe his vision of the Kingdom, he referred to yeast and seeds, a mustard bush, a pearl, a banquet.\u00a0 None of this sounded to the casual observer like normal religious teaching at all.<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a><br \/>\nHe was a miracle worker. He could read minds. He knew when people thought ill of him and when they would betray him.<br \/>\nOnly the guileless\u2014simple fishermen, lepers, outsiders, the sick, the possessed\u2014felt at home around him. The conspiratorial, the proud, those with much to lose\u2014they despised him, because he knew too much and what he knew could bring their worlds crashing down around them.<br \/>\nWhat he asked of them was that they repent. <strong>All he wanted was for them to move out of the shadows,<\/strong> away from their guile, the scheming, their fear, and into the light. His light.<br \/>\nGet real, he demanded. Repent. Quit lying to yourself. Love one another. Do good.<br \/>\nTo some he met, he was absolutely weird. To others, he was beautifully winsome. It all depended on whether you wanted freedom. If the renewal of the mind by the Holy Spirit makes us more like Jesus, it will make us weirder and more winsome, just like him.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/FROST-Author-Photo-bordered-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>You&#8217;ve been reading from <em>Keep Christianity Weird: Embracing the Discipline of Being Different by Michael Frost<\/em>. Watch the video, get the book, or read more free excerpts by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/books.thedisciplemaker.org\/keepchristianityweird_frost\/?utm_source=Disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=Jesus%20was%20original%20weirdo&amp;utm_campaign=Keep%20Christianity%20Weird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KeepChristianityWeird.net<\/a>. You can also learn more about Michael Frost at <a href=\"https:\/\/mikefrost.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikefrost.net.<\/a><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5755\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.thedisciplemaker.org\/keepchristianityweird_frost\/?utm_source=Disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=Jesus%20was%20original%20weirdo&amp;utm_campaign=Keep%20Christianity%20Weird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/Keep-Christianity-Weird-833x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the book to read more.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a>i] Nick Cave, introduction to The Gospel According Mark (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2010).<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> Cave, introduction to Mark.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> In saying this, I\u2019m not suggesting that Jesus never references Old Testament examples. He defends his approach to the Sabbath by referring to David eating the show bread at the tabernacle, and he quotes the Torah to the devil in the desert temptations. My point is that his homely examples weren\u2019t typical of the way Israel\u2019s religious leaders taught at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re open to the renewal of your mind by the Holy Spirit, and if such renewal serves the purpose of making us more like Jesus, then you need to brace yourself\u2014you\u2019re going to get more weird! That\u2019s because Jesus &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#more-5862\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus Was the Original Weirdo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[304,354],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jesus Was the Original Weirdo - The Disciplemaker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo - The Disciplemaker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you\u2019re open to the renewal of your mind by the Holy Spirit, and if such renewal serves the purpose of making us more like Jesus, then you need to brace yourself\u2014you\u2019re going to get more weird! That\u2019s because Jesus ... Read moreJesus Was the Original Weirdo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Disciplemaker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/weirdo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Disciplemaker Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Disciplemaker Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Disciplemaker Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/person\/336a0124246a4b32dfcd97632e442fd5\"},\"headline\":\"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\"},\"wordCount\":1285,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Keep Christianity Weird\",\"Michael Frost\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Know\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\",\"name\":\"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo - The Disciplemaker\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/\",\"name\":\"The Disciplemaker\",\"description\":\"Bold. Loving. Sensible.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#organization\",\"name\":\"NavPress\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/cropped-The-Disciplemaker.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/cropped-The-Disciplemaker.png\",\"width\":4092,\"height\":818,\"caption\":\"NavPress\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/person\/336a0124246a4b32dfcd97632e442fd5\",\"name\":\"The Disciplemaker Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f656eb42ae7a3178247402a948adef?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f656eb42ae7a3178247402a948adef?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Disciplemaker Team\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/author\/dgeeslin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo - The Disciplemaker","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo - The Disciplemaker","og_description":"If you\u2019re open to the renewal of your mind by the Holy Spirit, and if such renewal serves the purpose of making us more like Jesus, then you need to brace yourself\u2014you\u2019re going to get more weird! That\u2019s because Jesus ... Read moreJesus Was the Original Weirdo","og_url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/","og_site_name":"The Disciplemaker","article_published_time":"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/weirdo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"The Disciplemaker Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Disciplemaker Team","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/"},"author":{"name":"The Disciplemaker Team","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/person\/336a0124246a4b32dfcd97632e442fd5"},"headline":"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo","datePublished":"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00","dateModified":"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/"},"wordCount":1285,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#organization"},"keywords":["Keep Christianity Weird","Michael Frost"],"articleSection":["Know"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/","url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/","name":"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo - The Disciplemaker","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00","dateModified":"2018-09-26T14:58:42+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/09\/jesus-was-the-original-weirdo\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jesus Was the Original Weirdo"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/","name":"The Disciplemaker","description":"Bold. Loving. Sensible.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#organization","name":"NavPress","url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/cropped-The-Disciplemaker.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/cropped-The-Disciplemaker.png","width":4092,"height":818,"caption":"NavPress"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/person\/336a0124246a4b32dfcd97632e442fd5","name":"The Disciplemaker Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f656eb42ae7a3178247402a948adef?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f656eb42ae7a3178247402a948adef?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Disciplemaker Team"},"url":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/author\/dgeeslin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}