{"id":261,"date":"2006-09-02T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=261"},"modified":"2006-09-02T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T10:15:03","slug":"criticising-other-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Criticising Other Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan at Ekklesia has just accepted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesia.co.uk\/content\/news_syndication\/article_06092zionism.shtml\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.ekklesia.co.uk\/content\/news_syndication\/article_06092zionism.shtml','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">news item<\/a> from me about one group of Christians criticising another group of Christians over the issue of support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>This has got me thinking about criticism between Christians. I&#8217;m fine with the idea that we should be able to criticise each other and hold each other accountable (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=53&#038;chapter=5&#038;verse=12&#038;version=31&#038;context=verse\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=53&#038;chapter=5&#038;verse=12&#038;version=31&#038;context=verse','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">1 Corinthians 5:12<\/a>) but should this just be for those you have a close relationship with and the context to crticise constructively with a positive outcome? Or should we be able to criticise more widely &#8211; perhaps a bit like Old Testament prophets or Jesus destroying the market stalls in the temple &#8211; within the church?<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>should we be able to criticise more widely &#8211; perhaps a bit like Old Testament prophets or Jesus destroying the market stalls in the temple &#8211; within the church? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=261\">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":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}