{"id":44228,"date":"2014-05-23T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_army_archbishop_of_canterbury_welcomes_new_stepping_into_evangelism_\/"},"modified":"2014-05-23T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:30:55","slug":"church_army_archbishop_of_canterbury_welcomes_new_stepping_into_evangelism_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44228","title":{"rendered":"(Church Army) Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes new Stepping into Evangelism resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd Justin Welby, has welcomed Church Army\u2019s new resource, Stepping into evangelism, a practical booklet to equip individuals and churches to share their faith through words and action.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping into evangelism is filled with hands-on advice, tips and workbook exercises to help people engage in evangelism day-to-day. With evangelism being one of the Archbishop\u2019s top three priorities, it is hoped the resource will be a blessing to the wider church.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop said: \u201cWhen Pharaoh kept the people of God slaves he instructed them to make bricks but didn\u2019t give them the straw they needed to make them. Our God is entirely the opposite \u201d\u201c God charges us with a task then gives us what we need. This resource is a gift from God, via Church Army, to enable each of us to live out the most freeing, exciting and life-giving of mandates that God offers: to be witnesses to Jesus Christ. This is just the kind of thing we need.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churcharmy.org.uk\/pub\/nc\/News\/News2013\/201405steppingintoevangelism.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd Justin Welby, has welcomed Church Army\u2019s new resource, Stepping into evangelism, a practical booklet to equip individuals and churches to share their faith through words and action. Stepping into evangelism is filled with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44228\">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":[36,48,39,50,382,67,92,199,440,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-books","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228","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=44228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}