{"id":3767,"date":"2023-10-21T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2023-10-21T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T12:08:52","slug":"embody-our-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/embody-our-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Embody our Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> &#8220;I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God\u2019s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we\u2019ve been shown the mystery!(Colossians 2:2-3 The Message).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To <em>Live<\/em>\u00a0or \u201cwalk\u201d in Christ,\u00a0<em>abounding<\/em> or \u201coverflowing\u201d in thanksgiving is the path, our constant movement towards the kingdom. Yet we are also to be <em>rooted<\/em>\u00a0like a tree,\u00a0<em>built up<\/em>\u00a0like a secure structure with an\u00a0<em>established<\/em> faith.<\/p>\n<p>The embodiment of our faith is the combination of being rooted in the word and overflowing with the joy and celebration of the Love of God.\u00a0 It is part of our call to steward our faith and the embodiment of it which provides a strong foundation to move forward in spreading the Good News!<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday as we reflect on the seeds of the cultivation and care of God\u2019s Garden as we receive the Holy Spirit into our lives and ministry. We begin worship 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<strong>We look forward to seeing you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown-300x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Colossians-2-7-Rooted-on-Christ-brown.webp 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God\u2019s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/embody-our-faith\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}