{"id":5772,"date":"2019-11-02T05:08:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T05:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2019-11-02T05:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T05:08:28","slug":"gods-church-an-apostolic-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=5772","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s\u00a0 Church &#8211; an apostolic movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Bible, the apostle is not about being on the top of the pile. Just consider what the term apostle meant in Jesus\u2019 day. Jesus borrowed the concept of the word apostle from the Romans, who borrowed it from the Greeks. This term was the best way to describe what Jesus was building in His Church on the earth\u2014an apostolic movement. The responsibility of these people called \u2018apostles\u2019 was to recreate Roman culture in the newly conquered land by introducing Rome\u2019s educational system, language, arts, roads, and countless other values that had worked so well in Rome. The intention of this \u2018apostolic team\u2019 was to create in this new land something similar to Rome. This helps us understand why Jesus taught us to pray <i>\u2018on earth as it is in heaven\u2019<\/i>. God is not trying to keep us busy doing stuff until he returns again. He longs for earth to become Heaven,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a place where He feels as much at home as we do. Prayer and radical obedience make such places possible.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the backbone of our commission. Everything we do\u2014from raising healthy families, to preaching the Gospel and praying for the sick, to leading people to Christ\u2014is all done to complete this very glorious assignment: Pray and obey until this world .<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from \u2018The Way of Life\u2019 Ch 9 by Bill Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Bible, the apostle is not about being on the top of the pile. Just consider what the term apostle meant in Jesus\u2019 day. Jesus borrowed the concept of [&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":[3,27,51,71,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-good-news","category-identity","category-kingdom","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}