{"id":8654,"date":"2021-02-14T02:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T02:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2021-02-14T02:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T02:50:02","slug":"a-beautiful-scar-neil-stewart-tabletalk-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=8654","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; a beautiful scar &#8230; Neil Stewart &#8211; Tabletalk magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are to forgive others with the same liberality with which God has forgiven us (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esv.org\/Eph.+5.1\" target=\"_blank\">Eph. 5:1<\/a>). And when such a forgiving spirit is lacking, it calls into question our whole standing before God. When there is no forgiving spirit, it may be an indication that we haven\u2019t actually trusted in Christ. <strong><em>For when God wipes a sinner\u2019s slate clean, that soul is scarred with a merciful disposition toward others for the rest of their earthly lives. And what a beautiful scar that is!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-tabletalk wp-block-embed-tabletalk\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zupJankX6B\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tabletalkmagazine.com\/posts\/prayer-101-2021-02\/\">Prayer 101<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Prayer 101&#8221; &#8212; Tabletalk\" src=\"https:\/\/tabletalkmagazine.com\/posts\/prayer-101-2021-02\/embed\/#?secret=kc1XtsugUS#?secret=zupJankX6B\" data-secret=\"zupJankX6B\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are to forgive others with the same liberality with which God has forgiven us (Eph. 5:1). And when such a forgiving spirit is lacking, it calls into question our whole standing before God. When there is no forgiving spirit, it may be an indication that we haven\u2019t actually trusted in Christ. For when God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}