{"id":424,"date":"2022-09-21T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.182.141.3\/?page_id=424"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:18:49","slug":"a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for our work together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt='\"Hands' class='\"alignright' decoding='\"async\"' fetchpriority='\"high\"' height='\"630\"' https:="" in="" prayer="" size-full="" sizes='\"(max-width:' src='\"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prayer1200.jpg\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prayer1200.jpg' width='\"1200\"' wp-image-425="">\n<p>Creator God, as we continue to work together on a new strategic plan for the Anglican Church of Canada:\n<p style='\"padding-left:'>We pray that we will be attentive to, and guided by, the Holy Spirit, leading us in God’s will.\n<p style='\"padding-left:'><strong><em>Response:  Lord, help us to embrace our changing church, reach out to your searching world, and be confident in your faithfulness.\n<p style='\"padding-left:'>We pray that the new plan will help us to be more like Christ, and more able to live out His teachings of radical love and discipleship. <b><i>Response\n</i></b><p style='\"padding-left:'>We pray that God will give us the courage of spirit to engage in self-examination, and be willing to venture into new and difficult places. <b><i>Response\n</i></b><p style='\"padding-left:'>We pray that we may listen broadly and carefully to the quiet and the loud voices and to the still, small voice of God. <b><i>Response\n</i></b><p style='\"padding-left:'>We pray for openness, transparency, respectful communication and healing; for trust in the process, and stamina to see it through, that it may build us up in love. <b><i>Response\n</i></b><p style='\"padding-left:'>We pray that this plan will be an instrument that God will use to unify the church across Canada, that together, we all may participate more fully in God’s mission. <b><i>Response.<strong><em> Amen.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creator God, as we continue to work together on a new strategic plan for the Anglican Church of Canada: We pray that we will be attentive to, and guided by, the Holy Spirit, leading us in God’s will. Response:  Lord, help us to embrace our changing church, reach out to your searching world, and be [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/424\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynchangingchurch.anglican.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</em></strong></i></b></em></strong>