{"id":9145,"date":"2026-01-20T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:44:49","slug":"join-us-for-our-winter-message-series-how-to-have-an-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/join-us-for-our-winter-message-series-how-to-have-an-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us for Our Winter Message Series: How To Have An Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’re invited to join us every Sunday in January and February, for the message series that will take us through the winter season: How To Have An Enemy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s against our religion to give up on each other \u2013 yet these days, it\u2019s tempting. We nod along when the pastor says \u201call are beloved\u201d but\u2026 what do we do with the neighbor who hates us? How do we respond to the powerful voices that tear us apart? When we name our enemies, we tell the truth about ourselves: what we value most, and who we are at our core. <\/strong>Confronting an enemy helps us practice our ethics and become more of who we are. With practice, when it\u2019s finally time to square up and fight, we won\u2019t lose sight of our enemy\u2019s humanity \u2013 or, of our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope to see you, on an upcoming Sunday at 10am! Come by in-person<\/a> to enjoy the live music and the warmth of community \u2013 or join our livestream online on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’re invited to join us every Sunday in January and February, for the message series that will take us through the winter season: How To Have An Enemy. It\u2019s against our religion to give up on each other \u2013 yet these days, it\u2019s tempting. We nod along when the pastor says \u201call are beloved\u201d but\u2026 what do we do with the neighbor who hates us? How do we respond to the powerful voices that tear us apart? When we name our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,115],"tags":[90,100],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministriesandteams","category-wellsprings-news","tag-sd","tag-wl","ctfw-has-image"],"featured_image_urls":{"medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-300x169.png","large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-1024x575.png","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-150x150.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-768x431.png","post-thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-720x480.png","saved-banner":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-1200x400.png","saved-square":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-720x720.png","saved-square-large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-1024x1024.png","saved-square-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-160x160.png","saved-rect-medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-480x320.png","saved-rect-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-To-Have-An-Enemy-fb-cover-200x133.png"},"appp_media":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}