{"id":8640,"date":"2020-08-20T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2020-08-20T22:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T02:55:51","slug":"perfect-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8640","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-5-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Abba<\/em>&#8216;s hand is love through and through, even in his most severe mercy.  Paul, like Hosea before him, was convinced that it&#8217;s &#8220;the kindness of God that leads to repentance.&#8221;  More to the point, Christ demonstrated and taught that perfect holiness &#8212; for God and for us &#8212; consists only in perfect love.  Righteousness is not mere taboo avoidance, but the genuine faith of unselfish (cruciform) love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_way.html\">A More Christlike Way<\/a><\/em>, p. 73<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Burg Lahneck, Germany, August 22, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abba&#8216;s hand is love through and through, even in his most severe mercy. Paul, like Hosea before him, was convinced that it&#8217;s &#8220;the kindness of God that leads to repentance.&#8221; More to the point, Christ demonstrated and taught that perfect holiness &#8212; for God and for us &#8212; consists only in perfect love. Righteousness is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-jesus","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","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=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8643,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}