{"id":6843,"date":"2021-10-22T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:58:29","slug":"mercy-not-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Not Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLater when Jesus was eating supper at Matthew\u2019s house with his close followers, a lot of disreputable characters came and joined them. When the Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company, they had a fit, and lit into Jesus\u2019 followers. \u201cWhat kind of example is this from your Teacher, acting cozy with crooks and misfits?\u201d Jesus, overhearing, shot back, \u201cWho needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? Go figure out what this Scripture means: \u2018I\u2019m after mercy, not religion.\u2019 I\u2019m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.\u201d MATTHEW 9:10-13 (The Message)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLater when Jesus was eating supper at Matthew\u2019s house with his close followers, a lot of disreputable characters came and joined them. When the Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company, they had a fit, and lit into Jesus\u2019 followers. \u201cWhat kind of example is this from your Teacher, acting cozy with crooks and misfits?\u201d Jesus, overhearing, shot back, \u201cWho needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? Go figure out what this Scripture means: \u2018I\u2019m after mercy, not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=6843\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}