{"id":87,"date":"2005-12-01T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.ragedied.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-12-01T12:06:59","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T18:06:59","slug":"beautiful-words-a-sad-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/2005\/12\/01\/beautiful-words-a-sad-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful words, a sad truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1897859,00.html\">John Sentamu sworn in as Archbishop of York<\/a> in the Times Online, dated November 30, 2005:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He called on the Church of England to revive its spirit of &#8220;wonder&#8221; and &#8220;adoration&#8221; and to rediscover the transforming power of the Gospel.&#8221;The scandal of the church is that the Christ-event is no longer life-changing, it has become life-enhancing. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve lost the power and joy that makes real disciples, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become consumers of religion and not disciples of Jesus Christ.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Andrew Jones for <a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/2005\/12\/britain_at_the_.html\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article John Sentamu sworn in as Archbishop of York in the Times Online, dated November 30, 2005: He called on the Church of England to revive its spirit of &#8220;wonder&#8221; and &#8220;adoration&#8221; and to rediscover the transforming power of the Gospel.&#8221;The scandal of the church is that the Christ-event is no longer life-changing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pass-it-on"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pNDf-1p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}