{"id":4433,"date":"2012-01-13T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:41:11","slug":"the-art-of-apologising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/13\/the-art-of-apologising\/","title":{"rendered":"Car tyres and preachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>Dear Pastor Mark II<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last night Mark Driscoll published<a href=\"http:\/\/pastormark.tv\/2012\/01\/12\/a-blog-for-the-brits\"> a response<\/a> to the angry storm whipped up by the selective comments published ahead of his interview for <em>Christianity<\/em> magazine. In it he acknowledges the peculiarities of the British cultural and spiritual context. He goes on to call for a renewed search for truly great and influential preachers. So far, so\u00a0conciliatory.<\/p>\n<p>However, the implication that Britain is\u00a0starved\u00a0of good preachers and must always look across the Atlantic to fill its conference platforms still stings. His plea to\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;<em>reach, train, and deploy godly, gifted men, especially young men&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 dismisses at a stroke the ranks of Godly and gifted women who serve in so many churches.<\/p>\n<p>The brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Office-Politics-work-really-works\/dp\/0091910757\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326451338&amp;sr=8-4\">Guy Browning <\/a>once wrote that &#8220;apologies are the old rubber tyres that are hung over the sides of huge egos when they rub up against each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we need thicker tyres&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" src=\"http:\/\/boatbuild.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/p6040003-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"222\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image:boatbuild.files.wordpress<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pastor Mark II Last night Mark Driscoll published a response to the angry storm whipped up by the selective comments published ahead of his interview for Christianity magazine. In it he acknowledges the peculiarities of the British cultural and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/01\/13\/the-art-of-apologising\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}