{"id":474,"date":"2009-02-01T06:07:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/community-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T06:07:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:07:30","slug":"community-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/community-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Community of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we hear of an unclean man having an evil spirit cast out of him, it is difficult to relate such a story to our daily lives &#8211; unless we have experienced directly something similar. We reflect on the importance of imagination when it comes to sharing vibrant experiences of faith, and the integrity of living as though our experiences truly matter.<\/p>\n<p>As a congregation at St. David&#8217;s, we then reflect on our own lived experiences and how we grow in faith and live out our faith in community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/090201sm.pdf\" title=\"Sunday February 1st, 2009\">Sunday February 1st, 2009<\/a> (pdf)<br \/>\nSt. David&#8217;s Uniting Church, Oakleigh<br \/>\nRev. Arnie Wierenga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we hear of an unclean man having an evil spirit cast out of him, it is difficult to relate such a story to our daily lives &#8211; unless we have experienced directly something similar. We reflect on the importance of imagination when it comes to sharing vibrant experiences of faith, and the integrity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}