{"id":3544,"date":"2012-11-27T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:27:01","slug":"advent-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/advent-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent &#038; Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Advent begins and we will celebrate Holy Communion together. I was inspired by these words:<br \/>\n<em> &#8220;When we celebrate God\u2019s grace to us here, we are learning how to celebrate His goodness in every aspect of our lives, and that includes our orientation to festivals like Christmas. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Father Christmas appears in the book to give gifts and to destroy winter. He distributes his gifts and moves on. We should learn to be much more like him. And who comes next, and what does she say? Correct, the White Witch comes next, and she says, \u201cWhat is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this self-indulgence?\u201d In the White Witch\u2019s words we hear all the echoes of the pious fussers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But what do we learn in this meal, set before us? We learn of God\u2019s extravagance. We learn of His prodigality. We learn of His overflow. We learn that He doesn\u2019t know how to stay with respectable limits. Do you call saving us staying within respectable limits? Not a bit of it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Doug Wilson<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/advent-communion\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Advent begins and we will celebrate Holy Communion together. I was inspired by these words:<br \/> &#8220;When we celebrate God\u2019s grace to us here, we are learning how to celebrate His goodness in every aspect of our lives, and that includes our orientation to festivals like Christmas. In The Lion, the Witch and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,16],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor","tag-advent","tag-holy-communion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-Va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}