{"id":95,"date":"2018-12-18T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stthomas-stocktonheath.org.uk\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:38:17","slug":"what-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/?page_id=95","title":{"rendered":"What We Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#4d0000;font-size:22px\" class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">What We Believe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a church we are just a bunch of ordinary people who love God, want to worship Him together, pray for the world and bring His Kingdom a little closer for those who haven&#8217;t met Him yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We believe we are all on a journey of faith, like the first disciples.&nbsp; That means we look after each other, welcome anybody who wants to join or visit us, and take seriously Jesus&#8217; injunction to tell our friends and neighbours all about God&#8217;s saving love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We believe in God, who has created and is creating, who has come to reconcile and to make all things new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We trust God, who calls us to love and serve others, to seek justive and to resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified, dead and risen; our judge and our hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us: we are not alone.&nbsp; Thanks be to God.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Believe As a church we are just a bunch of ordinary people who love God, want to worship Him together, pray for the world and bring His Kingdom a little closer for those who haven&#8217;t met Him yet. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/?page_id=95\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latchford-benefice.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}