{"id":96,"date":"2015-06-12T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2023-12-21T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T16:04:17","slug":"communion-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/2015\/06\/communion-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Communion with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6\" src=\"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cropped-Header_20141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Eternal Life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whome you have sent [John 17:3]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a church we express our commitment to put knowing God at the centre of shared life.<\/p>\n<p>As individual church members we set ourselves to know God in the following ways:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Make a personal commitment to prayer.<\/strong> We will set aside regular space in daily life for prayer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Read the scriptures.<\/strong>\u00a0We seek to set aside time in each week to read and reflect on the bible and other spiritual writings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Share worship.<\/strong>\u00a0We commit ourselves to regular participation in prayer with others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Be open to learn and grow.<\/strong>\u00a0We aim to take part each year in a course or programme of study relate to prayer, Christian living and spiritual development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eternal Life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whome you have sent [John 17:3] As a church we express our commitment to put knowing God at the centre of shared life. As individual church members we set ourselves to know God in the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/2015\/06\/communion-with-god\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.stedwardnewaddington.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}