{"id":7100,"date":"2023-02-06T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:55:49","slug":"vigorously-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7100","title":{"rendered":"Vigorously Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We ought to be vigorously serious <br>About what the Church can be: <br>Christ to the state and to the nation; <br>Him the world is enabled to see! <br>We are that means of his visibility; <br>We are here taking His place. <br>Whether we have a building <br>Or meet in a field somewhere, <br>We make Him known by our community: <br>Our bonds of love and service. <br>We are here in His place to manifest <br>The person and the very love of God. <br>The church is no small matter, <br>So be careful when tempted to scatter <br>And leave the people of God behind <br>Because you have some beef to grind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1050 on 6 Feb., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ought to be vigorously serious About what the Church can be: Christ to the state and to the nation; Him the world is enabled to see! We are that means of his visibility; We are here taking His place. Whether we have a building Or meet in a field somewhere, We make Him known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,57,54,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100"}],"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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}