{"id":337,"date":"2019-10-12T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:10:03","slug":"why-do-we-give-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/why-do-we-give-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Give?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Generosity is a discipline\nthat is of interest to Christians, not just because the church relies chiefly\non the generosity of members for its financial resources, but because wealth\nand the ways we relate to it are such a central part of the Gospel.&nbsp; Jesus talks more about money than he does\nabout any other human institution, so there must be something there that he\nwants us to hear and understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our spiritual\nrelationship with money and giving is complex, and includes challenging ideas\nabout philanthropy, charity, security, poverty, pride and greed.&nbsp; Today, though, I","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generosity is a discipline that is of interest to Christians, not just because the church relies chiefly on the generosity of members for its financial resources, but because wealth and the ways we relate to it are such a central part of the Gospel.&nbsp; Jesus talks more about money than he does about any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archanglican.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}