{"id":9557,"date":"2025-11-04T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:52:51","slug":"beloved-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9557","title":{"rendered":"Beloved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Recker1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gospel &#8211; the good news &#8211; is that you are already fully loved and accepted.  That&#8217;s the message of grace at the heart of Christianity.  You don&#8217;t have to do anything to be loved.  <em>Not anything at all.<\/em>  The work is always to <em>receive<\/em> it, to <em>believe<\/em> it.  You don&#8217;t need to &#8220;be saved&#8221; to be loved.  Salvation is just a way of describing the moment we come to know and believe that we are <em>already<\/em> loved, that we have <em>always been<\/em> loved.  And our belovedness is not inspite of who we are but simply because we are worthy of love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian Recker, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hell_bent.html\">Hell Bent<\/a><\/em>, p. 45<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, November 4, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gospel &#8211; the good news &#8211; is that you are already fully loved and accepted. That&#8217;s the message of grace at the heart of Christianity. You don&#8217;t have to do anything to be loved. Not anything at all. The work is always to receive it, to believe it. You don&#8217;t need to &#8220;be saved&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,57,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-god","category-grace","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557","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=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9559,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions\/9559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}