{"id":96161,"date":"2020-10-18T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96161"},"modified":"2020-10-18T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T17:02:14","slug":"sunday-food-for-thought-dallas-willard-on-discipleship-and-living-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96161","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Food for Thought&#8211;Dallas Willard on Discipleship and Living Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When Mickey Mantle was dying of diseases brought on by a life of heavy drinking, he said that he would have taken better care of himself had he only known how long he was going to live. He gives us a profound lesson. How should we \u201ctake care of ourselves\u201d when we are never to cease? Jesus shows his apprentices how to live in the light of the fact that they will never stop living. This is what his students are learning from him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Dallas Willard, <b>The Divine Conspiracy<\/b> (San Francisco: Harper, 1998), p. 86, quoted by yours truly in the morning sermon<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maine in the fall is something else &#x1f929; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zawOuP652E\">pic.twitter.com\/zawOuP652E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tess Isabella Photography (@Tisabellaphoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tisabellaphoto\/status\/1316566957555056640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mickey Mantle was dying of diseases brought on by a life of heavy drinking, he said that he would have taken better care of himself had he only known how long he was going to live. He gives us<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96161\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,178,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christology","category-eschatology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96171,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96161\/revisions\/96171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}