{"id":9590,"date":"2011-12-13T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T07:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:37:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T07:37:05","slug":"christian-foundations-4-gambling-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/12\/13\/christian-foundations-4-gambling-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian foundations 4 Gambling Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0In preparing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/28\/cathedral-friday-forum-with-andrew-wilkie\/\">Friday Forum\u00a0on Poker machine gambling reform<\/a> with Andrew Wilkie, MHR Denison, I noted the following: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Jesus Christ\u2019s challenge focus:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to love this chaotic, complex, corrupted &amp; created world<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><strong>Birth<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Christmas<\/span>:\u00a0 God became human &amp; dwelt amongst us;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the significance &amp; value of our shared life is a reality for us<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><strong>Death<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Good Friday<\/span>: God in Christ was crucified;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 both our evil\/human brokenness &amp; reconciliation, are realities for us<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Resurrection<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Easter Sunday<\/span>:\u00a0 Christ rose from the dead: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">the eternal significance of our short life on this planet, is a<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> reality to us<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">God shows us in Christ<\/span>, in his person and acts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">the revelation of human relationships,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">the existence of evil in its many forms,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">the hope of forgiveness and reconciliation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">the eternal significance of this life in participating with Christ in building &#8211; the eternal city, the Kingdom of God.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<address><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">That which is of God,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">That which is of the heart &amp; mind of Christ<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">is eternally God\u2019s Kingdom.<\/span><\/address>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><strong>These 3 events<\/strong>: Christmas, Good Friday and Easter Sunday<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 provide <strong>3 platforms for life<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are all one people: <strong>a shared life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are all fatally flawed &amp; reconciled: <strong>a redeemed\/reconciled life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are all called to eternal significance: <strong>a significant life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In preparing for the Friday Forum\u00a0on Poker machine gambling reform with Andrew Wilkie, MHR Denison, I noted the following: Jesus Christ\u2019s challenge focus: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to love this chaotic, complex, corrupted &amp; created world Birth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Christmas:\u00a0 God became human &amp; dwelt &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/12\/13\/christian-foundations-4-gambling-forum\/\">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\/9590"}],"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=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9598,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}