{"id":29494,"date":"2011-11-24T01:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/living_church_mark_lawrence_the_bishop_brings_the_crozier\/"},"modified":"2011-11-24T01:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:50:06","slug":"living_church_mark_lawrence_the_bishop_brings_the_crozier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29494","title":{"rendered":"(Living Church) Mark Lawrence: &#39;The Bishop Brings the Crozier&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf the threat of property disputes is the only thing that holds us together, what sort of mission do we have?\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cJesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom, not the keys to the building.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He does not believe the quitclaim deeds will make congregations more inclined to separate from the diocese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, the people already believe they can leave because of the All Saints\u2019, Pawleys Island, decision\u201d\u009d by the South Carolina Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Distributing the quitclaim deeds was a liberating decision, the bishop said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2011\/11\/23\/the-bishop-brings-the-crozier\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf the threat of property disputes is the only thing that holds us together, what sort of mission do we have?\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cJesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom, not the keys to the building.\u201d\u009d He does not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29494\">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":[36,54,66,378,514,79,372,380,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-south-carolina","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494","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=29494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}