{"id":8036,"date":"2019-07-05T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2019-07-05T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:00:14","slug":"err-on-the-side-of-loving-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8036","title":{"rendered":"Err on the Side of Loving People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pavlovitz-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pavlovitz-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pavlovitz-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pavlovitz-3-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned a long time ago that the most God-honoring, most Jesus-reflecting act is to err on the side of loving people.  When you simply accept those around you in whatever condition they come to you, the table naturally expands and relationship happens and God does stuff that you couldn&#8217;t predict or control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; John Pavlovitz, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/bigger_table.html\">A\u00c2\u00a0Bigger\u00c2\u00a0Table<\/a>,<\/em> p. 43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Staffa Island, Scotland, July 13, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a long time ago that the most God-honoring, most Jesus-reflecting act is to err on the side of loving people. When you simply accept those around you in whatever condition they come to you, the table naturally expands and relationship happens and God does stuff that you couldn&#8217;t predict or control. &#8212; John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13,56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-god","category-jesus","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","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=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}