{"id":53518,"date":"2016-02-29T05:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_rennis_ponniahs_pastoral_guidance_on_the_madonna_concert\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T05:22:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:22:46","slug":"bishop_rennis_ponniahs_pastoral_guidance_on_the_madonna_concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53518","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Rennis Ponniah&#39;s Pastoral Guidance on the Madonna Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..life is about choices\u201d\u00a6 choices made by a society, a family and an individual. This is true also for Madonna. The spirit of Christians and of the Church is not to condemn but to invite, admonish and encourage one another, both as fellow-believers and fellow human beings, to make the right decisions for man\u2019s well-being and for the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>As hot-button issues continue to surface in every society and every age, pray that the Church and the Christian within her fold will be enabled by the Holy Spirit to take a clear, biblical position, to be bold and humble in posture and to be invitational and winsome in witness to the world that God so loved and continues to love (John 3:16). We make clear our position, we live our lives authentically and we pray fervently (2 Corinthians 10:3-5; Ephesians 6:10-18) so that God\u2019s life-giving reign will be known in the Church and in the nations..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.org.sg\/index.php\/news\/item\/the_bishops_pastoral_letter_on_the_madonna_concert\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..life is about choices\u201d\u00a6 choices made by a society, a family and an individual. This is true also for Madonna. The spirit of Christians and of the Church is not to condemn but to invite, admonish and encourage one another,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53518\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-the-anglican-church-in-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}