{"id":1705,"date":"2011-10-11T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2011-10-11T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:18:31","slug":"the_church_proclaims_or_do_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"The Church Proclaims (or do we)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/mt\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/OWS_001-21.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/mt\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/OWS_001-21.html','popup','width=1600,height=1067,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/mt\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/OWS_001-thumb-400x266-21.jpg\" alt=\"OWS_001.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" align=\"right\" height=\"228\" width=\"343\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve spent time with people in Zuccotti Park. I walked along with the marchers from the Park to Washington Square. <\/p>\n<p>I hear and see religious leaders marching, making pronouncements, building a golden calf. Do we have anything unique to say to a frustrated society other than jumping on yet another bandwagon? <\/p>\n<p>Does Jesus really love an unemployed person more than a corporate CEO? Or, does Jesus wish both to reconciliation and transformation for the benefit of their own souls and society.<\/p>\n<p>Do we honesty believe that Jesus is superficial enough to proclaim that he loves the fallible, humanly created Socialist economic system more than the fallible, humanly created Capitalist economic system or visa-versa? Or, might Jesus rather wish that no matter what economic system a society decides, that the people leading and inhabiting that system live such lives that the image of God is evident, regardless?&nbsp; Yet, this requires a way of ordering our lives, with Jesus at the center of our personal perception, that many people have a hard time accepting. (There is nothing new under the sun.)<\/p>\n<p>If we have nothing more to say to society than what people hear on Fox News or MSMBC, then no wonder fewer and fewer people find anything compelling in the Church.<\/p>\n<p>What we proclaim and assert may not be what people wish to hear &#8211; that which scratches their itching ears &#8211; but we do have a unique message, if only we are secure enough and confident enough to say so.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployed, the poor, the wealthy are all in need to redemption and reconciliation. Evil and good are found in all groups of people and in all systems.&nbsp; This should be our beginning point, rather than jumping on bandwagons that promote social, political, or economic ideologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent time with people in Zuccotti Park. I walked along with the marchers from the Park to Washington Square. I hear and see religious leaders marching, making pronouncements, building a golden calf. Do we have anything unique to say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1705\">Continue reading <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":[27,29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-photography","category-politicsculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}