{"id":3122,"date":"2022-09-11T00:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:48:04","slug":"come-near-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Come Near and Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the gospel stories Jesus chooses to hang out with the wrong kind of people.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why in today\u2019s gospel the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>He offered them something no one else could or would. That\u2019s also why the Pharisees and scribes were grumbling. Jesus was breaking the law, making God just a little too easily available.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The starting point for Jesus is grace: searching not blaming, finding not punishing, rejoicing not condemning.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for worship this Sunday at 10am in-person or on-line on Facebook Live or YouTube.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/120117-Luke-15-10-NoLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/120117-Luke-15-10-NoLogo-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/120117-Luke-15-10-NoLogo-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/120117-Luke-15-10-NoLogo-768x896.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/120117-Luke-15-10-NoLogo.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the gospel stories Jesus chooses to hang out with the wrong kind of people. That\u2019s why in today\u2019s gospel the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. He offered them something no one else could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3122\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}