{"id":8024,"date":"2019-06-26T23:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2019-06-26T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:23:16","slug":"catching-up-with-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8024","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kratzer-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kratzer-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kratzer-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kratzer-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, the true Christian life is not a test, it&#8217;s a rest.  Spiritual growth isn&#8217;t about becoming someone tomorrow who you aren&#8217;t today through one&#8217;s spiritual performance, but rather it&#8217;s the journey of our actions and attitudes catching up with who we already fully are in Christ &#8212; complete, whole, holy, pure, righteous, saved, and lacking no spiritual blessing.  This is the foundation of Grace that enables in us and through us all good things, effortlessly &#8212; any other foundation is a sinking sand-spiral of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Christ Kratzer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/leatherbound_terrorism.html\">Leatherbound Terrorism<\/a><\/em>, p. 115-116<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Meadowlark Gardens, Virginia, April 30, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, the true Christian life is not a test, it&#8217;s a rest. Spiritual growth isn&#8217;t about becoming someone tomorrow who you aren&#8217;t today through one&#8217;s spiritual performance, but rather it&#8217;s the journey of our actions and attitudes catching up with who we already fully are in Christ &#8212; complete, whole, holy, pure, righteous, saved, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-jesus","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024","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=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8026,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions\/8026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}