{"id":46306,"date":"2014-10-10T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_canterbury_encourages_ordinands_at_trinity_bristol\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:26:26","slug":"archbishop_of_canterbury_encourages_ordinands_at_trinity_bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46306","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury encourages ordinands in his address at Trinity, Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing that is essential in ministry it\u2019s knowing that you are in the hands of, and that you belong to, God Himself. That He\u2019s chosen you, that He\u2019s called you, that you are precious to God.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>With these powerful words the Archbishop of Canterbury began his address to the Trinity College community at the start of their new term, speaking to a packed chapel of women and men heading towards leadership in the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>His message followed the theme of Isaiah 44, where God reaffirms Israel\u2019s chosen status and reminds them that the One they belong to is more powerful than the mess they\u2019re in, and so commands them not to be afraid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.anglican.org\/2014\/affirming-ordinands-in-their-callings\">Read it all<\/a> and you can watch the whole Youtube video (about 12 1\/2 minutes).<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing that is essential in ministry it\u2019s knowing that you are in the hands of, and that you belong to, God Himself. That He\u2019s chosen you, that He\u2019s called you, that you are precious to God.\u201d\u009d With<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46306\">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":[36,48,39,382,74,67,389,435,184,108,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306","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=46306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}