{"id":35395,"date":"2012-10-31T01:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T01:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_episcopal_bishop_of_western_louisiana_jake_owensby-hearing_bartimaeus\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T01:02:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T01:02:03","slug":"the_episcopal_bishop_of_western_louisiana_jake_owensby-hearing_bartimaeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35395","title":{"rendered":"The Episcopal Bishop of Western Louisiana (Jake Owensby)&#8211;Hearing Bartimaeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Jesus teaches us to be merciful: to hear with our hearts the cries for help around us and to respond with the same help that Jesus has already given us.  We have received mercy so that we can show mercy.  A vital congregation is known for its works of mercy.<br \/>\nJesus\u2019 healing of blind Bartimaeus teaches us some helpful things about being a merciful congregation.  That story invites us to explore three questions:<br \/>\nWhat is mercy?<br \/>\nWhat are the works of mercy?<br \/>\nWhat effect do works of mercy have on the believing community?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pelicananglican.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/hearing-bartimaeus.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus teaches us to be merciful: to hear with our hearts the cries for help around us and to respond with the same help that Jesus has already given us. We have received mercy so that we can show mercy.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35395\">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":[36,66,372,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35395","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=35395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}