{"id":2053,"date":"2022-06-27T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2022-06-27T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:06:54","slug":"two-journeys-and-the-person-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2022\/06\/27\/two-journeys-and-the-person-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Journeys and the Person of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We looked at Pauls journeys in Acts 16. &nbsp;Lydia and possibly the jailer get referred to as &#8216;people of peace&#8217;. The reference is to the phrasing in Luke 10:5-6 where Jesus sends his disciples out.<\/p>\n<p>The writer reckons &#8220;The Person of Peace is someone God has prepared for that specific time. It is no good trying to force open doors that God has not opened, and we must not be distracted so that we miss the doors he has opened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How would we spot someone like that ? What would be some clues ? Can you think of anyone like this in your life?<\/p>\n<p>What space do you have for them ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We looked at Pauls journeys in Acts 16. &nbsp;Lydia and possibly the jailer get referred to as &#8216;people of peace&#8217;. The reference is to the phrasing in Luke 10:5-6 where Jesus sends his disciples out. The writer reckons &#8220;The Person of Peace is someone God has prepared for that specific time. It is no good trying to force open doors that God has not opened, and we must not be distracted so that we miss the doors he has opened.&#8221; How would we spot someone like that ? What would be some clues ? Can you think of anyone like this in your life? What space do you have for them ?<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}