{"id":93351,"date":"2020-05-29T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93351"},"modified":"2020-05-29T17:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:49:46","slug":"je-anglican-bishop-ryan-reed-on-seeking-the-gospel-amidst-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93351","title":{"rendered":"(JE) Anglican Bishop Ryan Reed on Seeking the Gospel Amidst Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the things that we have learned is the spiritual handicap or weight that comes upon you even when you are defending yourself in a lawsuit,\u201d Reed shares. \u201d This Sunday on Pentecost I am calling the entire diocese to a day or penance and of repentance. We are all collectively going to pray the litany of penance together and repent of any way in which this lawsuit has kept us from being faithful to the Gospel, any way it may have hardened our hearts to those who differ with us or those who wanted to hurt us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Sunday is a day of penance and a day of re-dedication. On Pentecost we are all going to re-affirm our baptismal vows and return to 100 percent focus upon sharing the Gospel and the transforming love of Jesus because that is what is important,\u201d Reed declares. \u201cAll of this property and these funds and the buildings \u2014 those are just tools to help us share the good news of Jesus Christ. We could do with or without them to be honest, but if we\u2019re not doing that, then those things don\u2019t matter at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2020\/05\/29\/anglican-bishop-ryan-reed\/\">Read it all and watch the whole interview<\/a> (just over 23 minutes).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkTbZIg4wX4\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the things that we have learned is the spiritual handicap or weight that comes upon you even when you are defending yourself in a lawsuit,\u201d Reed shares. \u201d This Sunday on Pentecost I am calling the entire diocese<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93351\">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":[63,114,184,573,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-pentecost","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351","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=93351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93354,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351\/revisions\/93354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}