{"id":6778,"date":"2021-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/blog-post\/the-straightforwardness-of-a-teacher\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:43:18","slug":"the-straightforwardness-of-a-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-straightforwardness-of-a-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Straightforwardness of a Teacher!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffThe theologian is a theologian wherever he may be. Theology flows out of him. You see it. You touch it. You hear it, whether he speaks in the Church or at home, or on the road\u2026 Once, Father Thomas Hopko (+2015) stopped a taxi. On the way, the taxi driver asked him: \u201care you a priest?\u201d. He answered him. The cabbie then asked him: \u201cdo you consider yourself saved?\u201d. He answered him also with the straightforwardness of the teacher: \u201cyes. Christ became Incarnate for my sake. He died on the Cross for my sake. There is nothing more that God could possibly do for me. He did everything. I am redeemed. However, the sins I commit every day, show me to be an adversary who is not worthy of God\u2019s redemption\u201d! It was said: \u201cthe theologian is he who prays\u201d. By saying what he said, Father Hopko added: \u201cit is he who constantly repents to God\u2019s mercy\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffThe theologian is a theologian wherever he may be. Theology flows out of him. You see it. You touch it. You hear it, whether he speaks in the Church or at home, or on the road\u2026 Once, Father Thomas Hopko (+2015) stopped a taxi. On the way, the taxi driver asked him: \u201care you a ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6779,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}