{"id":1853,"date":"2018-02-24T20:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:53:45","slug":"something-to-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Something to Think About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>It is certainly easier to ignore or condone sin than to forgive it. Doubtless, that is why the world adopts this stance.\u00a0 Those who ignore or condone sin need make no judgment about the sinner.\u00a0 Those who forgive hold him guilty, rebuke him, call him to repentance, and on confession of sin, promise never to bring up the matter again.\u00a0 Forgivers, in contrast to condoners, become deeply involved with the sinner &#8211; at every point of his sin.\u00a0 They seek to do him good at great cost to themselves.\u00a0 Forgiving is not easy; it costs.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>From <em>Forgiven to Forgiving<\/em> by Jay Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is certainly easier to ignore or condone sin than to forgive it. Doubtless, that is why the world adopts this stance.\u00a0 Those who ignore or condone sin need make no judgment about the sinner.\u00a0 Those who forgive hold him guilty, rebuke him, call him to repentance, and on confession of sin, promise never to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something to Think About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}