{"id":567,"date":"2004-08-11T22:41:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=567"},"modified":"2004-08-11T22:41:48","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T10:41:48","slug":"substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/567","title":{"rendered":"Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communion service @ St Peter&#8217;s tonight was rather worthwhile, as it often is. At the end of his talk David gave us a task:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMuch of the imagery used in these texts [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=Isaiah+8%3A11-15%2C+28%3A1-17%2C+1+Peter+2%3A1-12%2C+Ephesians+2%3A19-22%2C+Mark+12%3A1-12\">Isaiah 8:11-15, 28:1-17, 1 Peter 2:1-12, Ephesians 2:19-22, Mark 12:1-12<\/a>] to describe the church (rock\/building stone, temple\/house, priesthood\/sacrifices, nation\/race), are alien to our own way of life. We are called to proclaim the story of God&#8217;s mighty redemptive acts. Can you think of any contemporary image(s) or stories indigenous to our own culture(s) that capture the same truths?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communion service @ St Peter&#8217;s tonight was rather worthwhile, as it often is. At the end of his talk David gave us a task: Much of the imagery used in these texts [Isaiah 8:11-15, 28:1-17, 1 Peter 2:1-12, Ephesians 2:19-22, Mark 12:1-12] to describe the church (rock\/building stone, temple\/house, priesthood\/sacrifices, nation\/race), are alien to our [&hellip;]<\/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-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}