{"id":2024,"date":"2022-02-20T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:11:47","slug":"february-20-2022-7th-sunday-after-epiphany-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2022\/02\/february-20-2022-7th-sunday-after-epiphany-worship-service","title":{"rendered":"February 20, 2022 &#8211; 7th Sunday after Epiphany 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=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/JBS07Q04DdY\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 270px;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s gospel, Jesus\u2019 words today are challenging. But more that a list of dos and don\u2019ts, this is an invitation to enter a countercultural way of living: a lifestyle that meets antagonism with mercy, scarcity with generosity, and selfishness with abundant love. It is not a call to passivity or silence, to complicity in injustice, or to acceptance of the way things are in order to avoid conflict. Instead, it is a call to let God\u2019s merciful justice and compassionate grace define our stories, our relationships, and our very existence so that we might be agents of change. It it a call to experience the freedom that only Christ can give. It is a call to join God as co-creators of a new kingdom where Christ reigns, all in all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s gospel, Jesus\u2019 words today are challenging. But more that a list of dos and don\u2019ts, this is an invitation to enter a countercultural way of living: a lifestyle that meets antagonism with mercy, scarcity with generosity, and selfishness with abundant love. It is not a call to passivity or silence, to complicity in &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/worship\/2022\/02\/february-20-2022-7th-sunday-after-epiphany-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-2024","format-standard","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graceluth.com\/grace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}