{"id":11523,"date":"2022-11-09T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:30:04","slug":"making-thanksgiving-count-for-the-kingdom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11523","title":{"rendered":"Making Thanksgiving Count for the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>From the Archives<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Shane Bennett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in the US, our most American holiday is right around the corner. Thanksgiving presents a chance not only to re-calibrate our own gratitude meter but also to reach out to people we\u2019ve considered connecting with but haven\u2019t been able to trip the trigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanksgiving is innocuous, non-partisan, and safe. Even the most mild-mannered can break the social ice with, \u201cWhat are we thankful for?\u201d The more intrepid can follow up, \u201cWho are we thankful to?\u201d It\u2019s a ready-made opportunity to get more comfortable talking about God. And should a sermon threaten to break out, there\u2019s football, board games, and more pie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this idea is intriguing but intimidating, check out my super-short <a href=\"https:\/\/shanebennett.com\/2019\/10\/24\/a-five-step-plan-for-a-killer-international-thanksgiving-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Five-Step Plan for a Killer International Thanksgiving Dinner<\/a>. This will get you going in the right direction. Fill in the details by ransacking this beautiful and ridiculously helpful site with ideas for cross-cultural hospitality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theserviette.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Serviette<\/a>. These guys give the body of Christ a wonderful gift. Enjoy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also from our archives, see <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Five Reasons to Go Big on Gratefulness<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Archives By Shane Bennett Here in the US, our most American holiday is right around the corner. Thanksgiving presents a chance not only to re-calibrate our own gratitude meter but also to reach out to people we\u2019ve considered connecting with but haven\u2019t been able to trip the trigger. Thanksgiving is innocuous, non-partisan, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Thanksgiving Count for the Kingdom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}