{"id":3992,"date":"2024-04-20T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2024-04-20T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T13:14:07","slug":"loving-the-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Loving the Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cThe good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The depiction of Jesus as our Good Shepherd has always been so comforting.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to lay one\u2019s life down for someone else, especially if it is someone close to you or someone you appreciate<strong>. <\/strong>It is quite another thing to do it for an enemy or for others who don\u2019t deserve it or even want it.\u00a0 The amazing thing is that anyone would give up his life for another deserving person. The really wonderful thing is that the Good Shepherd would give his life for sheep like you and me!<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday as we celebrate the Good Shepherd, Jesus our Lord.\u00a0 \u00a0We 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. <strong>We look forward to seeing you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hqdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3993 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.\u201d\u00a0 The depiction of Jesus as our Good Shepherd has always been so comforting. It\u2019s one thing to lay one\u2019s life down for someone else, especially if it is someone close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3992\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","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\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}