{"id":350,"date":"2011-02-25T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/daily\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:55:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:55:02","slug":"cold-day-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Cold Day Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, couldn&#8217;t move my fingers so well after walking from my car to the church this morning. Cold! And those who experience real cold will undoubtedly laugh at me&#8230; but cold for Bellingham.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t resist posting a quote from Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church,\u00a0this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The bottom line is this, Christian: because of Christ\u2019s work on your behalf, God does not dwell on your sin the way you do. So, relax and rejoice\u2026and you\u2019ll actually start to get better. The irony, of course, is that it\u2019s only when we stop obsessing over our own need to be holy and focus instead on the beauty of Christ\u2019s holiness, that we actually become more holy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is his main point in a couple of excellently thoughtful posts on Christian &#8216;accountability.&#8217; Read the whole thing <a title=\"Tullian on accountability\" href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tullian\/2011\/02\/24\/more-on-accountability-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, couldn&#8217;t move my fingers so well after walking from my car to the church this morning. Cold! And those who experience real cold will undoubtedly laugh at me&#8230; but cold for Bellingham. Can&#8217;t resist posting a quote from Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church,\u00a0this morning: &#8230;The bottom line is this, Christian: because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cold Day Quote<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[95,88],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-righteousness","tag-accountability","tag-tchividjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}