{"id":1448,"date":"2018-07-30T02:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2018-07-30T02:26:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:26:49","slug":"a-community-defined-by-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"A community defined by love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erwin Raphel McManus makes an entry in his book &#8216;Soul Cravings&#8217; that is worthy of reflection. \u00a0He says<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i> \u201cLove can never be simply between you and God. \u00a0It can never be limited to that relationship. \u00a0Jesus makes that clear. \u00a0Love is more than the relationship between a man and woman, now matter how extraordinary it may be. \u00a0Love is ever expanding. \u00a0Love always grows, not just deeper, but wider. \u00a0Love always loves people more and loves more people. \u00a0Love calls us to community; love calls us to humanity; love calls us to each other. \u00a0When we belong to God we belong to each other. There are no outsiders.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>&#8220;Our belonging to each other is not incidental, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 but absolutely essential.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The question for us is not so much the importance of love &#8211; but, <strong>how do we establish a community defined by its love for one another and God<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erwin Raphel McManus makes an entry in his book &#8216;Soul Cravings&#8217; that is worthy of reflection. \u00a0He says\u00a0 \u201cLove can never be simply between you and God. \u00a0It can never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-love","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}