{"id":8740,"date":"2017-10-22T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2017-10-02T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:02:15","slug":"double-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8740","title":{"rendered":"Double force"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The seventeenth-century English pastor Walter Marshall brilliantly pointed out that the good news is a double force in a believer\u2019s life. The good news that we\u2019re forgiven, adopted, and forever loved by God creates thankfulness and hope of life with Jesus. This draws us to him in love\u2014like the tide pulls a ship. The good news that we\u2019re in Christ and given the Spirit means that we can rely on God\u2019s power in us. This is the power to flee from sin\u2014like the wind propels that same ship.3 Tide and wind. Attraction and power. Pull and push. The good news is the double force believing kids need.<\/p>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Klumpenhower, Jack. <i>Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids<\/i>. New Growth Press, 2014.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seventeenth-century English pastor Walter Marshall brilliantly pointed out that the good news is a double force in a believer\u2019s life. The good news that we\u2019re forgiven, adopted, and forever loved by God creates thankfulness and hope of life with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soteriology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-2gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8741,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}