{"id":12323,"date":"2009-01-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2009\/01\/29\/audio-ur-jon-trott-on-community-and-ministry\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T08:00:00","slug":"audio-ur-jon-trott-on-community-and-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/audio-ur-jon-trott-on-community-and-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Ur: Jon Trott on Community and Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tOn my bookshelf here at my <em>Leadership <\/em>office is a growing collection of books about intentional living&ndash;about new friars and new monastics and communes made up of multiple families under one roof. As with all such things, we wanted to get some perspective on the issue. So I spent an afternoon not long ago visiting with Jon Trott, a 30-year member of Jesus People USA (JPUSA) in Chicago. 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