{"id":4657,"date":"2026-09-14T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:27:13","slug":"et-si-on-inversait-la-tendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/et-si-on-inversait-la-tendance\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF WE REVERSED THE TREND?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 September 14, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday at lunch time, at the end of the service at church , we asked two ladies if they\u2019d like to join us for a meal at a restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They gladly accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we spent over two hours enjoying Indian cuisine in Vichy, getting to know each other better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could have gone home, and these two sisters in Christ\u2014who live alone\u2014could have each gone back to their own places. But we decided to do something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many Christians, every Sunday after church, find themselves alone, just as they are every other day of the week. So many Christians, after years of attending a fellowship seeing the same members, ultimately hardly know each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is nothing sadder than a child of God who, after singing <em>\u201cWe are one in a bond of love\u2026\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cYes, we are part of God\u2019s family\u2026,\u201d<\/em> finds themselves alone in front of their plate on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if we reversed this trend?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e &amp; Yukki  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 September 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}