{"id":1801,"date":"2011-12-20T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2011-12-20T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:18:01","slug":"his-perfect-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"His Perfect Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cPut on then, as God&#8217;s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,\u00a0bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.\u00a0And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.\u201d \u2013 Colossians 3:12-14 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>As the Apostle Paul reminds us in this passage, our goal when dealing with others should always be to embody Jesus\u2019 perfect example.\u00a0 By reaching out in kindness, compassion, humility and forgiveness, we not only Bless others, but at the same time we draw closer to Christ as well.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPut on then, as God&#8217;s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,\u00a0bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.\u00a0And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.\u201d [&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":[2385,988,37,3194,35,2132,2383,2384,161,2382],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-bless-others","tag-colossians","tag-compassion","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-forgiveness","tag-humility","tag-jesus-example","tag-jesus-perfect-example","tag-kindness","tag-the-apostle-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-t3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","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=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}