{"id":2183,"date":"2012-10-15T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:02:03","slug":"fighting-over-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Over Words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cRemind everyone about these things, and command them in God\u2019s presence to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.\u201d \u2013 2 Timothy 2:14 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>As Paul entreats Timothy in this impassioned correspondence; as followers of Christ it\u2019s important for us to spend our energies focusing on His divine example and teachings, and not allow our petty differences, disagreements and biases to divert that focus.\u00a0 In the service of our Lord, we must never miss the Message for the words.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRemind everyone about these things, and command them in God\u2019s presence to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.\u201d \u2013 2 Timothy 2:14 (NLT) As Paul entreats Timothy in this impassioned correspondence; as followers of Christ it\u2019s important for us to spend our energies focusing on [&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":[2368,3194,2943,2941,2940,2773,1801,2942,2944,2939],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-2-timothy","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-disagreements","tag-divine-example","tag-fighting-over-words","tag-jesus-teachings","tag-pauls-second-epistle-to-timothy","tag-petty-differences","tag-service-of-our-lord","tag-worthless-arguments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-zd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","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=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}