{"id":34717,"date":"2012-09-23T16:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/at_standing_committee_meeting_nigerian_anglican_church_encouraged_in_warrio\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:49:39","slug":"at_standing_committee_meeting_nigerian_anglican_church_encouraged_in_warrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34717","title":{"rendered":"At Standing Committee Meeting, Nigerian Anglican Church Encouraged in Warrior Witness and Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) met for its Standing Committee Meeting (SCM) at Cathedral Church of Emmanuel, Okesa, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, September 11-15, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The well-attended event had the theme: \u201d\u02dcResist The Devil And He Will Flee From You\u2019 (James 4v7)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>At the formal opening of the SCM on Thursday, September 14, while delivering his opening address to delegates, the Primate of All Nigeria, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, described the Devil as a spiritual being. Quoting John Piper, the Primate said: \u201cSatan lies, and is the Father of lies (John 8:44); Satan blinds the minds of unbelievers (2 Cor. 4:4); Satan masquerades in costumes of light and righteousness (II Cor. 11:13-15), and has disciples within the Church through whom he teaches doctrines of demons (I Tim. 4:1).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngrguardiannews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=99459:-promise-of-stronger-communion-at-standing-committee-meeting&#038;catid=102:ibru-ecumenical-centre&#038;Itemid=596\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) met for its Standing Committee Meeting (SCM) at Cathedral Church of Emmanuel, Okesa, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, September 11-15, 2012. The well-attended event had the theme: \u201d\u02dcResist The Devil And He Will Flee From You\u2019<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34717\">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":[36,48,74,390,440,184,34,166,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-theology","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34717","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=34717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}