{"id":3753,"date":"2022-06-26T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2022-06-26T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T16:56:57","slug":"its-difficult-work-youll-need-a-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/06\/26\/its-difficult-work-youll-need-a-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s difficult work &#8211; you&#8217;ll need a companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, Jesus sends his followers out to do the work of the Kingdom. He sends them <em>in pairs<\/em> &#8211; they will sometimes meet opposition &#8211; it could be a lonely and dispiriting task &#8211; the people will need to work in pairs for mutual support. This is a recognition of the practical human needs Jesus&#8217; followers will have.<\/p>\n<p><em>We are small people<\/em><br \/>\n<em>with a big task: God help us<\/em><br \/>\n<em>help one another.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A surprise when I zoomed in on this picture of the valley side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3754\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_4301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, Jesus sends his followers out to do the work of the Kingdom. He sends them in pairs &#8211; they will sometimes meet opposition &#8211; it could be a lonely and dispiriting task &#8211; the people will need to work in pairs for mutual support. This is a recognition of the practical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/06\/26\/its-difficult-work-youll-need-a-companion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult work &#8211; you&#8217;ll need a companion&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}