{"id":9463,"date":"2020-11-27T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2020-11-27T22:52:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:52:51","slug":"advent-reminds-us-we-are-the-hard-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9463","title":{"rendered":"Advent reminds us &#8211; \u2018we are the hard evidence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we commence a fresh new year in the Christian Calendar \u2013 heralded by the Season of Advent, and attention is drawn again to Jesus birth, his coming into the world for the first time as a human being. Let\u2019s remember that though born as human as you and I, Jesus demonstrated in his life what it means to love the Father.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Jesus life was a demonstration<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b>that convinced many<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b>that there was an alternative to the life they lived.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn a world where the church exists as a minority movement \u2026. The world needs to see what the Christian life looks like. People, who think God unnecessary, or just optional in life, need fresh images of how life is meant to be lived. They need hard evidence that following Jesus really makes a difference.\u201d (p192) Coffey and Gibbs in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i> Next Church<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Advent it is important to remember that, we are the only hard evidence our friends, family, colleagues and community are going to see that Jesus makes a difference. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>Those who do not know God, will only perceive the gospel as a feasible alternative when they have some positive personal experiences with people who do know him.<\/b> This responsibility falls, without exception, to everyone who follows Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we commence a fresh new year in the Christian Calendar \u2013 heralded by the Season of Advent, and attention is drawn again to Jesus birth, his coming into the [&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":[68,3,27,71,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-faith","category-good-news","category-kingdom","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","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=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}