{"id":47040,"date":"2014-11-24T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/evangelism_is_central_to_being_the_people_of_god_says_archbishop_justin_wel\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:30:05","slug":"evangelism_is_central_to_being_the_people_of_god_says_archbishop_justin_wel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47040","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism is central to being the people of God, says Archbishop Justin Welby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism is not a survival strategy for the church, but is instead an activity \u201ccentral to being the people of God\u201d\u009d, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Because we worship a God revealed in Jesus Christ who was \u201csent out to sow, to gather, and to draw back in\u201d\u009d, as Christians when we evangelise we reflect the nature of God, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Justin, who has made evangelism a priority for his ministry, was speaking at the Church Army\u2019s annual general meeting in central London, where he addressed evangelists from across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5449\/evangelism-is-central-to-being-the-people-of-god-says-archbishop-justin\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism is not a survival strategy for the church, but is instead an activity \u201ccentral to being the people of God\u201d\u009d, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday. Because we worship a God revealed in Jesus Christ who was \u201csent out<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47040\">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":[36,48,67,162,440,184,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-christology","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47040","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=47040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}