{"id":636,"date":"2009-03-30T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-11-28T05:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T05:05:05","slug":"why-are-we-rubbish-at-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Why are we rubbish at mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(and no I&#8217;m not talking about Sunday Papers or Richard &#8211; just the church in general and me (Mark) in particular)<\/p>\n<p>Is it because: We comfort ourselves with thoughts that we don&#8217;t &#8220;sin&#8221; much &#8211; so therefore we forget what doing wrong feels like (not because we aren&#8217;t doing wrong, but because we kid ourselves that we aren&#8217;t). So now, we have forgotten what it feels like to do wrong and we can&#8217;t imagine what it feels like for people who know that they are doing wrong &#8211; in fact, we forget that there <strong>are<\/strong> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johnquiggin.com\/?my_blueberry_nights\">My Blueberry Nights dvdrip<\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chessasia.net\/?prison_of_the_dead\">Prison of the Dead ipod<\/a> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/royalstreetinn.com\/?romancing_the_stone\">Romancing the Stone movie full<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ccvl.org\/?the_prince_of_tides\">The Prince of Tides<\/a><\/strong>   <\/em><em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/funwish.net\/?a_merchants_of_venus_aka_dirty_little_business_\">A Merchants of Venus (aka Dirty Little Business) movies<\/a><\/em> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/funwish.net\/?a_nightmare_on_elm_street\">A Nightmare on Elm Street move<\/a><\/u>   <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/londongirlgeekdinners.co.uk\/?patton\">Patton movies<\/a><\/u>   people who believe that they are doing wrong!<\/p>\n<p>So we have forgotten how to address people who are aware of their wrongdoing. We can&#8217;t imagine what to say to people who are aware of their wrongdoing because we&#8217;ve forgotten what it feels like to be a wrongdoer.<\/p>\n<p>There are people out there who know that they do wrong and know that they want out of it, but (very) unfortunately we&#8217;ve forgotten what to say to them because we&#8217;ve forgotten what it feels like to do wrong (because we kid ourselves that we don&#8217;t do much wrong).<\/p>\n<p>I experienced this with a friend just the other day &#8211; he knew he was doing wrong, but I just didn&#8217;t relate to it. I let him down.<\/p>\n<p>I need to put myself on a programme that reminds me how wrong I am so much of the time and at the same time reminds me of the basics of what Jesus has done for people like me &#8211; because it seems that I&#8217;ve forgotten. After all, if I&#8217;ve forgotten how wrong I am then I&#8217;m forgetting how much Jesus wants to, and can, help us.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onepercentpress.com\/?the_meaning_of_life\">The Meaning of Life movie<\/a>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.segd.org\/?soul_survivors\">Soul Survivors the movie<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it because: We comfort ourselves with thoughts that we don&#8217;t &#8220;sin&#8221; much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=636\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}