{"id":8707,"date":"2020-10-21T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2020-10-21T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:39:44","slug":"gods-heart-for-the-poorest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8707","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Heart for the Poorest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jersak-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jersak-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jersak-8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jersak-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jersak-8-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This identification extends to <em>all<\/em>, including those we might consider &#8220;the least&#8221; &#8212; least healthy, least wealthy, least moral, least innocent, etc.  God&#8217;s heart for the poorest in every category is not an <em>application<\/em> of the gospel.  It&#8217;s <em>intrinsic<\/em> to it.  We don&#8217;t see Christ in the &#8220;least of these&#8221; because they&#8217;ve chosen to follow him, but because in his Incarnation, Christ identified with the plight of every man, woman and child on the planet.<\/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. 222<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Skyline Drive Overlook, October 14, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This identification extends to all, including those we might consider &#8220;the least&#8221; &#8212; least healthy, least wealthy, least moral, least innocent, etc. God&#8217;s heart for the poorest in every category is not an application of the gospel. It&#8217;s intrinsic to it. We don&#8217;t see Christ in the &#8220;least of these&#8221; because they&#8217;ve chosen to follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,37,25,13,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-connection","category-core-value","category-god","category-jesus","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","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=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8709,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}