{"id":2621,"date":"2012-05-31T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2012-05-31T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T02:18:05","slug":"a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2621","title":{"rendered":"A Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neither son understands that the father’s love was never about any of that. The father’s love cannot be earned, and it cannot be taken away.<\/p>\n

It just is.<\/p>\n

It’s a party,
\na celebration,
\nan occasion without beginning and without end.<\/p>\n

It goes on, well into the night,
\nand into the next day,
\nand the next
\nand the next.
\nWithout any finish in sight.<\/p>\n

Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.<\/p>\n

So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.<\/p>\n

It simply doesn’t matter when it comes to the surprising, unexpected declaration that God’s love simply is yours.<\/p>\n

— Rob Bell, Love Wins<\/a><\/em>, p. 187-188<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neither son understands that the father’s love was never about any of that. The father’s love cannot be earned, and it cannot be taken away. It just is. It’s a party, a celebration, an occasion without beginning and without end. It goes on, well into the night, and into the next day, and the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}