{"id":1914,"date":"2021-10-03T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2021-10-17T18:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:32:55","slug":"october-3-2021-19th-sunday-after-pentecost-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2021\/10\/october-3-2021-19th-sunday-after-pentecost-worship-service","title":{"rendered":"October 3, 2021 &#8211; 19th Sunday after Pentecost worship service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 480px; height: 270px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" id=\"okplayer\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/0mCRmCy_g9U\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 270px;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gospel from Mark, the two episodes may seem disjointed: a challenging, even unsettling passage about divorce is followed by a much-loved image of Jesus telling his disciples to let little children come to him. Yet in both passages, Jesus puts rules and conventions aside to challenge his followers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hearts to greater openness and vulnerability. How might we become agents of love through Christ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gospel from Mark, the two episodes may seem disjointed: a challenging, even unsettling passage about divorce is followed by a much-loved image of Jesus telling his disciples to let little children come to him. Yet in both passages, Jesus puts rules and conventions aside to challenge his followers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hearts to greater openness and &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2021\/10\/october-3-2021-19th-sunday-after-pentecost-worship-service\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-pastor","post-1914","format-standard","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}