{"id":1066,"date":"2021-02-22T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:34:36","slug":"when-the-flock-was-scattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"when the flock was scattered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Steve Maltz introduces his LATEST book written during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>You are now able to assess how well the Church has mostly responded to lockdown and, for many clerics, perhaps everything has returned to a kind of a normality. But consider this, what if the pandemic was somehow God\u2019s Plan A \u2026 AND THAT we were never meant to return to \u201cNORMALITY\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>What if the whole episode was momentarily shifting our attention away from the tragic effect of the virus, His plan to move the Church into a new paradigm. Perhaps the true intention of the lockdown was Flockdown, a jolt to His Church, the flock, either to lay prostrate, out for the count, or to sit up and take notice?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Maltz introduces his LATEST book written during lockdown. You are now able to assess how well the Church has mostly responded to lockdown and, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,6],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}