{"id":1254,"date":"2013-03-13T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1254"},"modified":"2013-03-13T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:58:07","slug":"piata-postna-nedela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/piata-postna-nedela\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Sunday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Readings:\u00a0<i>Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of God&#8217;s\u00a0main policies\u00a0in governing the universe is that he always\u00a0gives us another chance. This \u00a0is what the prophet Isaiah tells us.\u00a0Through him, God explains: &#8220;Remember not the events of the past&#8230; see, I am doing something new!&#8221; God is\u00a0inviting his people\u00a0to look\u00a0to the future with hope. God reminds\u00a0them that he has done wonders for his people in the past, and\u00a0promises\u00a0to do so again. It&#8217;s God&#8217;s\u00a0policy\u00a0to give his people\u00a0another chance, to\u00a0bring them back\u00a0from exile even though they don&#8217;t really deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus follows the same policy\u00a0with the adulterous woman.\u00a0Notice that\u00a0he doesn&#8217;t ignore or excuse\u00a0her sin &#8211; he acknowledges it and actually tells her to &#8220;go and sin no more.&#8221; But at the same time,\u00a0he doesn&#8217;t condemn her. He gives her\u00a0another chance.<\/p>\n<p>Giving us another chance is one of God&#8217;s\u00a0main policies.\u00a0It&#8217;s called\u00a0mercy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called\u00a0forgiveness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called\u00a0real love\u00a0in a sinful, fallen world. The Pharisees wanted to\u00a0destroy\u00a0the sinful woman.\u00a0 Jesus wanted to give her\u00a0another chance.<\/p>\n<p>This was Jesus&#8217;\u00a0mission.\u00a0He came to earth to overcome sin and death with mercy and resurrection; to lead each one of us out of exile and into eternal life, just as God had led Israel out of Babylon and back to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>We are\u00a0Christians.\u00a0\u00a0We are Christ&#8217;s\u00a0followers.\u00a0We are Christ&#8217;s\u00a0representatives\u00a0in the world. If\u00a0his\u00a0mission was to give people another chance, then our mission\u00a0has to be the same.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings:\u00a0Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11 One of God&#8217;s\u00a0main policies\u00a0in governing the universe is that he always\u00a0gives us another chance. This \u00a0is what the prophet Isaiah tells us.\u00a0Through him, God explains: &#8220;Remember not the events of the past&#8230; see, I am doing something new!&#8221; God is\u00a0inviting his people\u00a0to look\u00a0to the future with hope. God reminds\u00a0them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}