{"id":40731,"date":"2013-10-25T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chris_sugden_at_gafcon-facing_an_aggressive_secular_world_and_a_more_world\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:00:55","slug":"chris_sugden_at_gafcon-facing_an_aggressive_secular_world_and_a_more_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40731","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sugden at Gafcon&#8211;Facing an aggressive secular world and a more worldly established church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing in Anglicanism like GAFCON. The Lambeth Conferences have all the bishops and their wives; the Anglican Consultative Council has a few representatives from each province. The Third Divine Commonwealth Conference in Nigeria from November 18-22 with 5000 people is largely composed of members of the Church of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>GAFCON2013 is made up of bishops, clergy and lay people drawn from 38 countries numbering over 1300 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdeacon of Cardigan, the Venerable Will Strange, describes the worship, led by a choir and a drummer as fantastic. The morning bible expositions of the Book of Ephesians have been spectacular and models of their kind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/gafcon.latest.the.dual.challenges.of.an.aggressive.secular.world.and.increasingly.worldly.established.church\/34486.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing in Anglicanism like GAFCON. The Lambeth Conferences have all the bishops and their wives; the Anglican Consultative Council has a few representatives from each province. The Third Divine Commonwealth Conference in Nigeria from November 18-22 with 5000<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40731\">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":[36,400,74,512,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-gafcon-ii-2013","category-global-south-churches-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40731","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=40731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}