{"id":1679,"date":"2024-04-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:42:22","slug":"sermon20240407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240407\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2024\">\n<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church<br \/>\nScripture: Genesis 1:26-31 (ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Rev. Paul Lee<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2024_0407_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Genesis 1:26-31 (ESV)<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-ESV-26\" class=\"text Gen-1-26\"><sup class=\"versenum\">26\u00a0<\/sup>Then God said, \u201cLet us make man\u00a0in our image,\u00a0after our likeness. And\u00a0let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-1\">\n<p class=\"line\"><span id=\"en-ESV-27\" class=\"text Gen-1-27\"><sup class=\"versenum\">27\u00a0<\/sup>So God created man in his own image,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Gen-1-27\">in the image of God he created him;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Gen-1-27\">male and female he created them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"top-1\"><span id=\"en-ESV-28\" class=\"text Gen-1-28\"><sup class=\"versenum\">28\u00a0<\/sup>And God blessed them. And God said to them,\u00a0\u201cBe fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-29\" class=\"text Gen-1-29\"><sup class=\"versenum\">29\u00a0<\/sup>And God said, \u201cBehold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.\u00a0You shall have them for food.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-30\" class=\"text Gen-1-30\"><sup class=\"versenum\">30\u00a0<\/sup>And\u00a0to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.\u201d And it was so.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-31\" class=\"text Gen-1-31\"><sup class=\"versenum\">31\u00a0<\/sup>And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31 (ESV) Speaker: Rev. Paul Lee Genesis 1:26-31 (ESV) 26\u00a0Then God said, \u201cLet us make man\u00a0in our image,\u00a0after our likeness. And\u00a0let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240407\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cultural Mandate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-sermon","category-rev-paul-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}