{"id":6680,"date":"2018-07-21T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2018-07-21T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T02:44:57","slug":"launching-the-rescue-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6680","title":{"rendered":"Launching the Rescue Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jersak-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jersak-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jersak-2-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jersak-2-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if, as we&#8217;ve suggested above, the judgment for turning from God is nothing other than turning from God?  Turning away is itself the disaster that bears horrid and painful results.  What if God&#8217;s response to our turning away is <em>not<\/em> to turn away also, but to launch the rescue mission that will save us from ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_god.html\">A More Christlike God<\/a><\/em>, p. 272<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Burg Rheinstein, Germany, July 1997]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if, as we&#8217;ve suggested above, the judgment for turning from God is nothing other than turning from God? Turning away is itself the disaster that bears horrid and painful results. What if God&#8217;s response to our turning away is not to turn away also, but to launch the rescue mission that will save us [&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-6680","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\/6680","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=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}