{"id":174,"date":"2016-07-07T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2016-07-18T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:54:22","slug":"mobilizing-the-community-and-the-church-in-the-face-of-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Mobilizing the Community and the Church in the face of Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots on my mind but I&#8217;m reminded that the principalities that we fight, the wickedness that we face is deeply rooted. It&#8217;s definitely time to get back to church where there is strength and power to overcome. Our pulpits have seen injustices, inequalities, but yet were able mobilize communities and affect change. I know with anything there is good and bad, but it&#8217;s time we choose Christ. Today we find ourselves in a society driven by reality TV and everything goes truth is everything isn&#8217;t acceptable. The thing that is perpetual is the very essence and necessity in Christ, His presence in the church and the presence of the Church in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots on my mind but I&#8217;m reminded that the principalities that we fight, the wickedness that we face is deeply rooted. It&#8217;s definitely time to get back to church where there is strength and power to overcome. Our pulpits have seen injustices, inequalities, but yet were able mobilize communities and affect change. I know with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobilizing the Community and the Church in the face of Tragedy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}