{"id":1612,"date":"2011-11-17T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2011-11-17T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:28:49","slug":"ambassadors-of-gods-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"Ambassadors of God&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cLet no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.\u00a0And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.\u00a0Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.\u00a0Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.\u201d \u2013 Ephesians 4:29-32 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Words are powerful; they can serve to bring encouragement, comfort and compassion to others, or just as easily can tear them down, causing discouragement, pain and upset.\u00a0 Through the example of Christ Jesus we\u2019re called to be ambassadors of God\u2019s love, letting His grace and mercy flow through us to others by way of our words, our decisions and our actions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.\u00a0And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.\u00a0Let all bitterness and wrath and anger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[724,2137,2135,27,37,2134,3194,154,823,361,967,1576,2138,19,1673,2136,723],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-actions","tag-ambassadors-of-gods-love","tag-building-up-others","tag-comfort","tag-compassion","tag-corrupting-talk","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-decisions","tag-discouragement","tag-encouragement","tag-ephesians","tag-gods-grace","tag-gods-mercy","tag-pain","tag-pauls-epistle-to-the-ephesians","tag-upset","tag-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-q0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}