{"id":211,"date":"2006-02-12T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T09:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-02-12T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T09:35:24","slug":"slope-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Slope and Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to Richard&#8217;s piece on &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=205\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=205','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">slope<\/a>&#8216; and the comments about it:<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about the time I spend with the youth of our local church. Am I:<br \/>\n1. Running a group with the agenda of communicating Christ to them<br \/>\nOR<br \/>\n2. Running a group with the sole agenda of enabling them to be a group and have their own agenda&#8217;s, and just being Christ to them.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the pressure is on me (from tradition) to do (1) and sure I hope that I do communicate Christ to them, but is that my agenda?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, is there a condition that I attach to attendance that they must allow me to control a certain amount of the time we spend together? If so, do they come in spite of that? If so, is that a positive thing?<\/p>\n<p>Would it be better to relinquish any attempt to control and just to be there on their terms?<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I&#8217;m tending toward the idea of a lack of control I&#8217;m not sure that this is a lack of slope. Surely if I practise &#8216;being Christ to people&#8217; then I am always a slope, always a way in?<\/p>\n<p>But this is slope without hidden agenda, without control, without events &#8211; just me being the new me.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about the time I spend with the youth of our local church. Am I:<br \/>\n1. Running a group with the agenda of communicating Christ to them<br \/>\nOR<br \/>\n2. Running a group with the sole agenda of enabling them to be a group and have their own agenda&#8217;s, and just being Christ to them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programmes","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}