{"id":381,"date":"2011-09-12T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/daily\/?p=381"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:26:50","slug":"identity-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Identity thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful Monday morning, another day to marvel at God&#8217;s grace in giving us life and breath. O that we might use it to reveal that our identity has been radically changed &#8212; as we&#8217;ve been redeemed and adopted into Jesus Christ&#8217;s family&#8230; by His wondrous work alone!<\/p>\n<p>Along the lines of a new identity, here&#8217;s Tim Keller from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">King&#8217;s Cross<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Are you beginning to see how radical Jesus is? It&#8217;s not a matter of saying, \u2018I&#8217;ve been a failure, I&#8217;ve been immoral, so now I&#8217;m going to go to church and become a moral, decent person. Then I&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m a good person because I am spiritual.&#8217; Jesus says, \u2018I don&#8217;t want you to simply shift from one performance-based identity to another; I want you to find a whole new way. I want you to lose the old self, the old identity, and base yourself and your identity on me and the gospel.'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful Monday morning, another day to marvel at God&#8217;s grace in giving us life and breath. O that we might use it to reveal that our identity has been radically changed &#8212; as we&#8217;ve been redeemed and adopted into Jesus Christ&#8217;s family&#8230; by His wondrous work alone! Along the lines of a new identity, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Identity thoughts<\/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],"tags":[19,101],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-keller","tag-tim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}