{"id":355,"date":"2007-03-19T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=355"},"modified":"2007-03-19T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T18:55:55","slug":"revelation-revolution-and-rupture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Revelation, Revolution, and Rupture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I did the series of posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=171\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=171','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">redefining church<\/a> I briefly explored the concept that the church has an intrinsic sub cultural weakness, and like many institutions this is a preference for evolution over revolution, yet I feel that the shifts we see in scripture are so dramatic that they are more like revolutionary change. <\/p>\n<p>Pete Rollins has been exploring the concept Revelation as a rupture and you can check out some of his thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignite.cd\/blogs\/Pete\/index.cfm\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.ignite.cd\/blogs\/Pete\/index.cfm','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">here<\/a> which in many ways helps describe the type\/scale of change and root of what I was getting at. However I find it quite hard to find which post to recommend on his site so would suggest as an alternative to check out the talk he gave at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbelt.org.uk\/index.php?p=691\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.greenbelt.org.uk\/index.php?p=691','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">Greenbelt<\/a> 2006.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I did the series of posts on redefining church I briefly explored the concept that the church has an intrinsic sub cultural weakness, and like many institutions this is a preference for evolution over revolution, yet I feel that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}