{"id":40629,"date":"2013-10-20T01:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_journal_andrew_stephens-rennie_awakening_to_the_gospel\/"},"modified":"2013-10-20T01:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T01:10:39","slug":"anglican_journal_andrew_stephens-rennie_awakening_to_the_gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40629","title":{"rendered":"(Anglican Journal) Andrew Stephens-Rennie: Awakening to the gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we step back and take a deep breath, we come to understand that there is much at which to wonder. The Rev. Bill Cliff, Huron University College\u2019s chaplain, is fond of saying, \u201cIf the gospel isn\u2019t astonishing, you\u2019re not reading it right.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>If we\u2019re going to engage in Christian youth ministry that matters, we need to reawaken our sense of awe, wonder and astonishment. If we are not captivated by the Christian story, how can we expect our children to find it relevant?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/awakening-to-the-gospel\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we step back and take a deep breath, we come to understand that there is much at which to wonder. The Rev. Bill Cliff, Huron University College\u2019s chaplain, is fond of saying, \u201cIf the gospel isn\u2019t astonishing, you\u2019re not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40629\">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":[36,48,388,74,184,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-parish-ministry","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629","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=40629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}