{"id":5082,"date":"2022-09-21T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:43:03","slug":"love-without-stopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5082","title":{"rendered":"Love without Stopping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s get back to Corinthians! I love this little paragraph in the last chapter of 1 Corinthians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. (1 Corinthians 16.13, 14, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s bullet it out and note the contrast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Be watchful, <\/em><\/li><li><em>stand firm in the faith, <\/em><\/li><li><em>act like men, <\/em><\/li><li><em>be strong. <\/em><\/li><li><em>Let all that you do be done in love. <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I say contrast because the first four are &#8220;manly&#8221; commands. They sound like an appeal to an army&#8230;or a football team! But wait&#8230;Do all that in love! Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a battle, and battles require fighting, but we do it in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sent The Message version to our pastor as he was off to a General Conference of the United Methodist Church about 20 years ago (the battles are ongoing). It&#8217;s still a good word:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you&#8217;ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping. (1 Corinthians 16.13, 14, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get back to Corinthians! I love this little paragraph in the last chapter of 1 Corinthians: Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. (1 Corinthians 16.13, 14, ESV) Let&#8217;s bullet it out and note the contrast: Be watchful, stand firm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love without Stopping<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1jY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}