{"id":3559,"date":"2023-04-15T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2023-04-15T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T15:22:50","slug":"show-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Show Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we make room for the Thomases in our world, those that ask uncomfortable questions? After questioning Thomas does come to believe. He sees Jesus for himself. And after that experience he not only confirms the witness of his friends but makes the most profound confession of faith about Jesus contained in the New Testament, calling Jesus \u201cmy Lord and my God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But all of that comes after he has a chance to voice his doubt. And sometimes faith is like that \u2013 it needs the freedom of questions and doubt to really spring forth and take hold.\u00a0 \u00a0Otherwise, faith might simply be confused with a repetition of prayers and creeds or giving your verbal consent to the faith statements of others. But true, vigorous, vibrant faith comes, from the freedom to question, wonder, and doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we explore Thomas&#8217; pain and confusion and the realization that he finally comes to.\u00a0 Our worship will begin at 10 am.\u00a0 All are welcome either in-person or on-line and the bulletin can be found on this website in the virtual bulletin tab.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0We look forward to seeing you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/f8acfa4f46677c10cfc5cc41b3ecc023-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we make room for the Thomases in our world, those that ask uncomfortable questions? After questioning Thomas does come to believe. He sees Jesus for himself. And after that experience he not only confirms the witness of his friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3559\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","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\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}