{"id":2082,"date":"2022-05-01T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warapungamonday.wordpress.com\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2022-05-01T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T16:34:22","slug":"the-tale-of-two-kingdoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Two\u00a0Kingdoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chapter 18 <br><br>Good Monday Morning to this week 18 of 2022 <br><br>Let us rehearse the various scenarios of the tale of these two Kingdoms of what it means to be on either side of the equation. The self-narrated role we play in our own story creates for us the\u00a0illusion\u00a0we\u2019ve chosen correctly, leading us to assume we\u2019re on the right side of history because we imagine we\u2019ve chosen to serve a greater good. <br><br>Greg Doles writes this beautiful piece I quote the middle of a text and article; <br><br>The Kingdom of Man believes that the greater good is a matter of seizing power, so that control and lockstep conformity, to whatever the latest iteration of the greater good the ruling authorities say it is, can be achieved. Therefore it is a kingdom\u00a0<em><strong>best served<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by intimidation, coercion, and violence and conformity. <br><br>But for the Kingdom of God, the greater good is best understood relationally \u2013 that only the humble servant of all will have prominence in God\u2019s Kingdom (Mark 10:42-45). Therefore it is a kingdom\u00a0<em><strong>best served<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by, forgiveness, redemption, and love. <br><br>In short, God doesn\u2019t bully people into conformity \u2013 He lovingly entreats them to reconciliation \u2013 to be reconciled to God . . . and to one another.<br><br>Wishing you a blessed start to this week!<br><br>Philemon <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 18 Good Monday Morning to this week 18 of 2022 Let us rehearse the various scenarios of the tale of these two Kingdoms of what it means to be on either side of the equation. The self-narrated role we play in our own story creates for us the\u00a0illusion\u00a0we\u2019ve chosen correctly, leading us to assume &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tale of Two\u00a0Kingdoms&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}