{"id":4283,"date":"2010-06-12T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2010-06-12T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T12:26:12","slug":"prayer-fuel-our-corporate-culpability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/12\/prayer-fuel-our-corporate-culpability\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer fuel: our corporate culpability"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Can you trust a politician? No. Self-interest rules.<\/p>\n<p>Can you trust a politician who is your brother? Yes, as a brother; no as a politician. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">We, the public, have made them that way<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Haunting words on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">our corporate culpability<\/span> from the Prime Minister&#8217;s brother\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/opinion\/in-blood-sport-honesty-is-bad-policy\/story-e6frg6zo-1225878624762?from=public_rss\">In blood sport, honesty is bad policy<\/a>. More fuel for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayservices.anglican.asn.au\/docs\/confessions.rtf\">Prayers of Confession<\/a>\u00a0on my <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/05\/14\/prayer-pilgrimage-purposes-prayer-final-text\/\">&#8216;People at prayer&#8217; Prayer Pilgrimage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<address>We have not spoken out for justice as we should<\/address>\n<address>and we have not stood up for our beliefs.<\/address>\n<address>We have not prayed for the suffering Church<\/address>\n<address>and we have not cared as we should.<\/address>\n<address>We have not campaigned for freedom to captives<\/address>\n<address>and we have not appreciated our freedom.<\/address>\n<address>We seek your forgiveness, and ask that you would plant in us<\/address>\n<address>a desire to care for those in your kingdom who suffer.<\/address>\n<address>By your Holy Spirit enable us to live for you; <\/address>\n<address>through\u00a0Jesus Christ our Lord.\u00a0 Amen. <\/address>\n<p>I cherish our forgiveness in God&#8217;s grace in Christ;<\/p>\n<address>God is slow to anger and full of compassion, forgiving all who humbly repent and trust in his Son as Saviour and Lord. God therefore forgives us in Christ Jesus, in whom there is no condemnation.\u00a0 Amen. <\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you trust a politician? No. Self-interest rules. Can you trust a politician who is your brother? Yes, as a brother; no as a politician. We, the public, have made them that way. Haunting words on our corporate culpability from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/12\/prayer-fuel-our-corporate-culpability\/\">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\/4283"}],"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=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}