{"id":4356,"date":"2010-06-23T23:58:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2010-06-23T23:58:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T12:58:59","slug":"the-psychology-of-the-front-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/23\/the-psychology-of-the-front-row\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The psychology of the front row&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0brave parish rector and venerable gentleman, Noel, showed great courage\u00a0when he\u00a0read this revolutionary article to\u00a0the congregation\u00a0in order to move them into the front rows. \u00a0It happened. I saw it: at a <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/05\/14\/prayer-pilgrimage-purposes-prayer-final-text\/\">Prayer Pilgrimage gathering<\/a>. And the people thought it all good sport. Go Anglicans! &#8211; forward, that is \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The<strong> psychology of the front row<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> from the June Edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasmaniananglican.com\/\">Tasmanian Anglican<\/a>, Doug Edmonds writes that we can tell an Anglican congregation by the fact that the front couple of rows in the church are vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Doug suggests that maybe it is time <em>we should change our ways and move forward on Sunday mornings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He gives some suggestions as to why we should sit up the front row, here are three:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sitting up the front shows we recognise that we are participants in worship and not spectators &#8211; the further back we are the more we feel we are just looking on.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting up the front gives real encouragement to those who are leading worship.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting up the front helps us to see familiar things in a different way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of Doug&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasmaniananglican.com\/ta201006-06\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0brave parish rector and venerable gentleman, Noel, showed great courage\u00a0when he\u00a0read this revolutionary article to\u00a0the congregation\u00a0in order to move them into the front rows. \u00a0It happened. I saw it: at a Prayer Pilgrimage gathering. And the people thought it all &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/06\/23\/the-psychology-of-the-front-row\/\">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\/4356"}],"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=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}