{"id":2689,"date":"2021-06-03T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peaceumc.com\/staging\/8882\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2021-06-03T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:26:07","slug":"peace-conversations-jesus-as-friend-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceumc.com\/staging\/8882\/peace-conversations-jesus-as-friend-june-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Conversations: Jesus as Friend (June 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us for Peace Conversations at\u00a0<strong>9:00 to 10:00 am<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>this Saturday morning,\u00a0<\/strong>and invite a friend, as we explore questions in\u00a0<em>Freeing<\/em>\u00a0<em>Jesus<\/em>.<br><br>\u201c&#8217;Friend&#8217;\u00a0seems to be a gentle way of understanding Jesus, yet it is often mocked,\u201d says Diana Butler Bass. The Bible tells us a different story about friendship with Jesus. As Jesus is saying to his disciples, \u201cI no longer call you servants\u2026 I call you friends.\u201d John 15:15<br><br><em>Freeing<\/em>\u00a0<em>Jesus<\/em>\u00a0explores the many images of\u00a0Jesus\u00a0we encounter and embrace through a lifetime\u2014and how our faith is informed by the lives we live. It invites us to liberate\u00a0Jesus\u00a0and\u00a0free\u00a0ourselves when it comes to the ever-compelling and yet often-elusive figure at the center of Christian faith.<br><br>Diana Butler Bass says in Freeing Jesus, \u201cneither historical scholarship nor conventional doctrine quite captures who Jesus is for me \u2013 the skepticism bred by one and the submissiveness inculcates by the other do not fully tell the story of the Jesus I know:\u00a0<strong>the Jesus of experience<\/strong>.\u201d<br><br>Join by clicking the Zoom invitation below on Saturday morning at 9 am.<br>\u00a0<br>Gary Walpole is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.<br>\u00a0<br>Topic: Peace Zoom Conversations: Freeing Jesus<br>Time: Jun 5, 2021 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)<br>\u00a0<br>Join Zoom Meeting<br><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/93007500888?pwd=VGp6U2pLdHFkbEVPYVNCSGhVeWlmUT09\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/93007500888?pwd=VGp6U2pLdHFkbEVPYVNCSGhVeWlmUT09<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Meeting ID: 953 7321 6063<br>Passcode: 121691<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for Peace Conversations at\u00a09:00 to 10:00 am\u00a0this Saturday morning,\u00a0and invite a friend, as we explore questions in\u00a0Freeing\u00a0Jesus. \u201c&#8217;Friend&#8217;\u00a0seems to be a gentle way of understanding Jesus, yet it is often mocked,\u201d says Diana Butler Bass. 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