{"id":772,"date":"2005-01-03T22:30:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=772"},"modified":"2005-01-03T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T10:37:33","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/772","title":{"rendered":"Stand back for a moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some vague ideas for a vision for church:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gap\">\n<li>Church shows world what Jesus is like, therefore what God is like. Jesus is the &#8220;image of the invisible God,&#8221; perhaps most especially on the cross, in self-sacrificial suffering. I think the church can behave like that in a small way, and in doing that show God to the world. NTW has an idea that &#8220;as Jesus to Israel, so the Church to the World.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Church is picture of new humanity, showing the world what life could be like for them if they turned to God, away from chasing things like money &#038; power.<\/li>\n<li>Church shows what life in true community is like, families helping each other out wherever they can, learning to look after the bit of creation they&#8217;ve been entrusted with, sharing food grown &#038; things made (which incidentally would happily reduce dependence on supermarket system), where people get to be listened to, contribute &#038; feel valued.<\/li>\n<li>Church is a place that welcomes broken people, specialises in helping out people who&#8217;s lives aren&#8217;t sorted out (like solo mums, stoners, lonely people), perhaps instead of specialising in assuaging the religious longings of reasonably-well-off middle-NZers.<\/li>\n<li>Particular Christians and Christian families find their own vocations within the larger vocation of the church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some vague ideas for a vision for church: Church shows world what Jesus is like, therefore what God is like. Jesus is the &#8220;image of the invisible God,&#8221; perhaps most especially on the cross, in self-sacrificial suffering. I think the church can behave like that in a small way, and in doing that show God [&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-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}