{"id":17339,"date":"2024-06-19T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=17339"},"modified":"2024-06-18T00:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:35:39","slug":"hot-potato-lunchtime-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2024\/06\/hot-potato-lunchtime-event\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hot Potato&#8217; Lunchtime Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chance to share the good news of Jesus at &#8216;Hot Potato&#8217; a lunchtime event at Swanfield Chapel. Chichester. West Susssex.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThis week, one theme: for three very different talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talk: Be on the winning team! Jesus calls us to \u2018follow him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?attachment_id=17340\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sjs-june-2444-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sjs-june-2444-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sjs-june-2444-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sjs-june-2444-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sjs-june-2444.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, British football itself was shaped in the 19th century by a movement called \u2018Muscular Christianity\u2019 encouraging the game for its social and physical benefits. And to win young men for the church.<\/p>\n<p>Churches and Sunday schools founded some of today\u2019s premier league clubs like Everton (St Domingo\u2019s Methodist Church), Manchester City (St. Mark\u2019s Anglican Church), Southampton (St Mary\u2019s) and Celtic (Catholic St. Mary\u2019s Church Hall, Glasgow)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hymns like Abide with Me, Swing low sweet chariot and When the saints go marching in are still a traditional part of the British football scene.<\/p>\n<p>Football, like many other parts of European life, has been shaped by gospel truth more than we realise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chance to share the good news of Jesus at &#8216;Hot Potato&#8217; a lunchtime event at Swanfield Chapel. Chichester. West Susssex. This week, one theme: for three very different talks Talk: Be on the winning team! Jesus calls us to \u2018follow him.\u2019 Believe it or not, British football itself was shaped in the 19th century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}