{"id":16079,"date":"2018-06-06T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T08:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=16079"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T08:51:06","slug":"ahealthychurch-transforminglife-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2018\/06\/06\/ahealthychurch-transforminglife-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;ahealthychurch&#8230;transforminglife&#8217; 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A current writing engagement requires\u00a0online access to this 2004 document, ahealthy<strong>Church<\/strong>&#8230;<em>transforming<strong>Life<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">With the growing awareness in 2004 of needing to respond to survivors of child sexual abuse, the Anglican Church in\u00a0Tasmania determined to do all that we could to build a culture of safety and wellbeing for children and the vulnerable. Our vision statement reflected our heart&#8217;s desire to be\u00a0&#8216;a healthy church &#8230; transforming life&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The first part, &#8216;ahealthy<strong>church&#8217;<\/strong>, was the challenge\u00a0to examine our strengths and weaknesses with honesty and grace &#8211; nothing was to be &#8216;off the table&#8217;. As a diocese we\u00a0committed to becoming what God wants us to be, mature disciples of Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:28). In order to achieve this aim, every one of us needed to submit to\u00a0the transforming work of God: &#8216;<em>transforming<strong>life<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; is God\u2019s heart desire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">See the vision document, &#8216;ahealthy<strong>Church<\/strong> &#8230; <em>transforming<strong>Life<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; at,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2018\/06\/transformingLIFE1.pdf\">transformingLIFE[1]\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A current writing engagement requires\u00a0online access to this 2004 document, ahealthyChurch&#8230;transformingLife. With the growing awareness in 2004 of needing to respond to survivors of child sexual abuse, the Anglican Church in\u00a0Tasmania determined to do all that we could to build &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2018\/06\/06\/ahealthychurch-transforminglife-2004\/\">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\/16079"}],"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=16079"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16093,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions\/16093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}