{"id":5094,"date":"2017-12-24T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2017-12-24T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:22:52","slug":"called-for-a-purpose-wright-p-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5094","title":{"rendered":"Called for a Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The normal Greek word for &#8220;sin,&#8221; namely <em>hamartia<\/em>, means &#8220;missing the mark&#8221;: shooting at a target and failing to hit it.  This is subtly but importantly different from being given a long and fussy list of things you must and mustn&#8217;t do and failing to observe them all.  In the story the Bible is telling, humans were created for a purpose, and Israel was called for a purpose, and the purpose was not simply &#8220;to keep the rules,&#8221; &#8220;to be with God,&#8221; or &#8220;to go to heaven,&#8221; as you might suppose from innumerable books, sermons, hymns, and prayers.  Humans were made to be &#8220;image-bearers,&#8221; to reflect the praises of creation back to the Creator and to reflect the Creator&#8217;s wise and loving stewardship into the world.  Israel was called to be the royal priesthood, to worship God and reflect his rescuing wisdom into the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; N. T. Wright, <em>The Day the Revolution Began<\/em>, p. 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The normal Greek word for &#8220;sin,&#8221; namely hamartia, means &#8220;missing the mark&#8221;: shooting at a target and failing to hit it. This is subtly but importantly different from being given a long and fussy list of things you must and mustn&#8217;t do and failing to observe them all. In the story the Bible is telling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","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=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}