{"id":1899,"date":"2014-06-15T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:00:25","slug":"revd-the-lord-leslie-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Revd the Lord Leslie Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening Friday evening address was by the Revd the Lord Leslie Griffiths, Superintendent<br \/>\nMinister, Wesley\u2019s Chapel, London who being a South Walian was able to chart without any notes<br \/>\nnot only his calling but also to powerfully highlight the problems for the Methodist Church<br \/>\nespecially because for the past 40 years its membership has declined from 675,000 to<br \/>\n200,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2691431-revd-leslie-griffiths-has-christianity-run-out-of-steam-has-christianity-run-out-of-steam\/embed\/v3?eid=AQAAAADaeVRnESkA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; min-width:300px; max-width:700px;\" style=\"background-color:transparent;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2691431-revd-leslie-griffiths-has-christianity-run-out-of-steam-has-christianity-run-out-of-steam\">listen to &#x2018;Revd Leslie Griffiths: Has Christianity run out of steam?: Has Christianity run out of steam?&#x2019; on audioBoom<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();<\/script><\/p>\n<p>He compared Methodist circuits to Anglican deaneries and after his time in Haiti he<br \/>\nknew the power of peasant peoples through what he called their survival schools. He asked,<br \/>\n\u2018What are we communicating to whom?\u2019 but really, \u2018We should be led by the Spirit rather than<br \/>\nby the Book.\u2019 As a Labour life peer in the House of Lords he can convey a Christian message in<br \/>\nsupporting his fellow peers and as to he can still be involved with Haiti. His final thought after<br \/>\na lively Q&#038;A session was that we have to share and trust in each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening Friday evening address was by the Revd the Lord Leslie Griffiths, Superintendent Minister, Wesley\u2019s Chapel, London who being a South Walian was able to chart without any notes not only his calling but also to powerfully highlight the problems for the Methodist Church especially because for the past 40 years its membership has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-55","category-conferences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Rev-Leslie-Griffths-3-e1422367132679.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9I8eL-uD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldeaneries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}