{"id":17892,"date":"2010-02-13T04:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T04:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/methodists_declare_were_ready_to_merge_with_church_of_england\/"},"modified":"2010-02-13T04:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T04:25:57","slug":"methodists_declare_were_ready_to_merge_with_church_of_england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17892","title":{"rendered":"Methodists declare &#39;we&#39;re ready to merge&#39; with Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Methodist Church is prepared to be absorbed by the Church of England if that is the price of unity, Britain\u2019s most senior Methodist said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev David Gamble, president of the Methodist Conference, told the General Synod of the Church of England, meeting at Church House, Westminster: \u201cWe are prepared to go out of existence, not because we are declining or failing in mission, but for the sake of mission.\u201d\u009d Methodists were \u201cprepared to be changed and even to cease having a separate existence as a Church\u201d\u009d if that served the needs of the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article7023713.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Methodist Church is prepared to be absorbed by the Church of England if that is the price of unity, Britain\u2019s most senior Methodist said yesterday. The Rev David Gamble, president of the Methodist Conference, told the General Synod of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17892\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,42,74,389,158,360,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-methodist","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}