{"id":3881,"date":"2022-08-22T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2022-08-22T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:06:33","slug":"its-who-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/08\/22\/its-who-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s who you know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Luke reading from <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\/texts.php?id=277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, Jesus teaches a lesson that goes against the received wisdom in most walks of life. Don&#8217;t push yourself forward. Don&#8217;t go hobnobbing with the high and mighty. That might be the way of normal people &#8211; but it is not the way of the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>He tell the story of taking a lowly place at a wedding feast, then being asked to come up higher. This once happened to us in Botswana &#8211; I was uncomfortable because it felt like white privilege!<\/p>\n<p>Driven by the sun;<br \/>\nwheeling air, vapour aloft,<br \/>\npatterns of weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Luke reading from next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, Jesus teaches a lesson that goes against the received wisdom in most walks of life. Don&#8217;t push yourself forward. Don&#8217;t go hobnobbing with the high and mighty. That might be the way of normal people &#8211; but it is not the way of the kingdom of God. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/08\/22\/its-who-you-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s who you know&#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-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}