{"id":514,"date":"2004-07-14T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=514"},"modified":"2004-07-14T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T23:35:18","slug":"take-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/514","title":{"rendered":"Take aim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking about the ‘principalities & powers’ in Ephesians 6<\/a> before going to sleep the other night, I realised I’d forgotten the previous bit ‘we don’t wrestle against flesh & blood’. And I wonder if it’s fair to paraphrase Paul thusly: We’re not fighting individuals, the people on the street. They are to a large extent pawns in larger systems of evil, and it’s the systems that need to be battled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about the ‘principalities & powers’ in Ephesians 6 before going to sleep the other night, I realised I’d forgotten the previous bit ‘we don’t wrestle against flesh & blood’. And I wonder if it’s fair to paraphrase Paul thusly: We’re not fighting individuals, the people on the street. They are to a large extent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}