{"id":8141,"date":"2019-08-28T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2019-08-28T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T03:06:04","slug":"all-are-worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8141","title":{"rendered":"All Are Worthy."},"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\/08\/Pavlovitz-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pavlovitz-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pavlovitz-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pavlovitz-5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus feeds people.  That&#8217;s what he does.  And as striking as what he does is, equally revelatory is what he <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> do here.  There&#8217;s no altar call, no spiritual gifts assessment, no membership class, no moral screening, no litmus test to verify everyone&#8217;s theology and to identify those worthy enough to earn a seat at the table.  Their hunger and Jesus&#8217; love for them alone, nothing else, make them worthy.  This is a serious gut check for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Pavlovitz, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/bigger_table.html\">A Bigger Table<\/a>, <\/em>p. 61-62<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo:  South Riding, Virginia, August 28, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus feeds people. That&#8217;s what he does. And as striking as what he does is, equally revelatory is what he doesn&#8217;t do here. There&#8217;s no altar call, no spiritual gifts assessment, no membership class, no moral screening, no litmus test to verify everyone&#8217;s theology and to identify those worthy enough to earn a seat at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-community","category-jesus","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","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=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}