{"id":15525,"date":"2015-06-12T06:17:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=15525"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T03:19:25","slug":"a-prayer-for-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/06\/12\/a-prayer-for-synod\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Guiding Prayer for Anglican Church of Tasmania&#8217;s Synod 12,13 June\u00a02015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loving and Gracious God,<br \/>\nyou ever call us to new life in Jesus your Son<br \/>\nin whose name we serve.<\/p>\n<p>We acknowledge our need of you.<br \/>\nWe confess that we have sinned,<br \/>\nin our thoughts, our words,<br \/>\nand our deeds of commission and omission.<\/p>\n<p>Give us the gift of your Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nto inspire and lead us,<br \/>\nthat, together, we may offer you worship and praise.<br \/>\nIn the spirit of Christ\u2019s love and grace,<br \/>\nhelp us to focus on the challenges before us,<br \/>\nto listen with humility and care,<br \/>\nto ask good questions and to listen,<br \/>\nand to encourage one another, even as we may disagree.<\/p>\n<p>So bless our prayerful work<br \/>\nthat many men and women, boys and girls<br \/>\ncome to know and love Jesus<br \/>\nand grow as his missionary disciples.<\/p>\n<p>To the glory of God the Father<br \/>\nthrough his Son Jesus Christ our Lord<br \/>\nand in the power of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guiding Prayer for Anglican Church of Tasmania&#8217;s Synod 12,13 June\u00a02015 Loving and Gracious God, you ever call us to new life in Jesus your Son in whose name we serve. We acknowledge our need of you. We confess that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/06\/12\/a-prayer-for-synod\/\">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\/15525"}],"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=15525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15533,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions\/15533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}