{"id":8539,"date":"2026-03-12T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:04:26","slug":"calling-all-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cAnd as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting  with him and his disciples.  When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, \u201cWhy does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d  But when he heard this, he said, \u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  Go and learn what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u2019 For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.\u201d MATTHEW 9:10-13 (NRSV)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, \u201cWhy does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d But when he heard this, he said, \u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u2019 For I have come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8539\"> 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-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","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=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}