{"id":2421,"date":"2024-02-29T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:51:37","slug":"whanau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2024\/02\/29\/whanau\/","title":{"rendered":"Wh\u0101nau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWoman, here is your son\u2026 Here is your mother\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cE tai, nan\u0101, t\u0101u tama!\u201d\u2026N\u0101, t\u014du whaea!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b><sup>25&nbsp;<\/sup><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother\u2019s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b><sup>26&nbsp;<\/sup><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, \u201cWoman, here is your son,\u201d <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b><sup>27&nbsp;<\/sup><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>and to the disciple, \u201cHere is your mother.\u201d From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>John 19:25\u201327 (NIV)<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>Pete\u2019s ponderings : <\/b>Who are we responsible for ? The Intertwined branches and roots say something of the interconnectedness of us all. On the other side of the door is a much bigger picture. Being pushed by God on a swing is whimsical, freeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><b>Colin\u2019s chewings : <\/b>Family has always been about blood. Jesus, by wa yof his blood redefines family to be more than who you are related to. It\u2019s act of whakawhanaungatanga. One of the marks of the early church was that it broke open the ties of physical family to embrace any and everyone. Like when couples foster children, they chose relationship. When Christian community is working the way it is supposed to, people<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>are brought together who have absolutely nothing in common, except the grace of God. .<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Questions for reflection<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">What does the word wh\u0101nau mean to you ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Is there a family in the bible who fits your family ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Who is your life has become a chosen family member ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">How can we as a church act as family together ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\">Can you think of any practical examples ?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">What are we asked to do as part of the family of God ?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">What does the \u2018swing\u2019 mean to you ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWoman, here is your son\u2026 Here is your mother\u201d&nbsp; \u201cE tai, nan\u0101, t\u0101u tama!\u201d\u2026N\u0101, t\u014du whaea! 25&nbsp;Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother\u2019s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26&nbsp;When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, \u201cWoman, here is your son,\u201d 27&nbsp;and to the disciple, \u201cHere is your mother.\u201d From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. John 19:25\u201327 (NIV) Pete\u2019s ponderings : Who are we responsible for ? The Intertwined branches and roots say something of the interconnectedness of us all. On the other side of the door is a much bigger picture. Being pushed by God on a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}