{"id":14941,"date":"2014-05-27T09:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T22:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=14941"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T22:17:10","slug":"presidential-address-to-synod-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2014\/05\/27\/presidential-address-to-synod-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Address to Synod 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Presidential Address I delivered to Synod in Launceston on the 23rd May 2014:<\/p>\n<p>In the joy of the Risen Lord\u00a0Jesus, I welcome you to this second session of the 52 Synod of the Diocese of Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time and commitment to Synod&#8217;s ministry of fellowship, governance and oversight. Together we make a vital contribution toward the vision of our Anglican Church being\u00a0a healthy church transforming life.<\/p>\n<p>It is my prayer that our work together during this session of Synod will bring glory to God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit and a blessing to His Church.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers and Sisters in Christ, my heart and passion is to see God&#8217;s people on God&#8217;s mission.\u00a0 This will only be true as we turn to God, stay true to our Biblical faith founded in Jesus Christ, and seek always the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The full Address can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicantas.org.au\/index.php?item=file&amp;target=Presaddress2014\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">here<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Presidential Address I delivered to Synod in Launceston on the 23rd May 2014: In the joy of the Risen Lord\u00a0Jesus, I welcome you to this second session of the 52 Synod of the Diocese of Tasmania. Thank &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2014\/05\/27\/presidential-address-to-synod-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14941"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14953,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions\/14953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}