{"id":3364,"date":"2020-03-24T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2020-03-24T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:03:48","slug":"the-plague-an-ecclesiastical-reponse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"The Plague: An Ecclesiastical Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 March, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let the Churches Get\nin Order<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plague serves as a call to order.&nbsp; Let the church &#8211; most important of all organizations\nin a given community &#8211; pray for the people!&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, but who are &#8220;the people&#8221;?&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good time to address the issue of membership.&nbsp; Figure our who you members are and&nbsp; summon them only, &#8220;my people&#8221; to come before the Almighty, who sends and ends plagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here an excellent sermon by Matt Trewhella:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Look at COVID-19   Mercy Seat Church - Sermon March 22nd 2020\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bBrhpjKlk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 March, 2020 Let the Churches Get in Order The plague serves as a call to order.&nbsp; Let the church &#8211; most important of all organizations in a given community &#8211; pray for the people!&nbsp; Ah, but who are &#8220;the people&#8221;?&nbsp; A good time to address the issue of membership.&nbsp; Figure our who you members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,23,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}