{"id":8534,"date":"2023-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/gods-action-grace-and-striving\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:49:56","slug":"gods-action-grace-and-striving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/gods-action-grace-and-striving\/","title":{"rendered":"God's Action: Grace and Striving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus said \u201cyour sins are forgiven\u201d. He also said: \u201csin no more\u201d. The first statement is not understood without the second. Gratuitousness and willingness. Grace and striving. Gifts and their investment. This is the completion of God's action in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus said \u201cyour sins are forgiven\u201d. He also said: \u201csin no more\u201d. The first statement is not understood without the second. Gratuitousness and willingness. Grace and striving. Gifts and their investment. This is the completion of God's action in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1655,1240,1293,2595,2594],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-divine-grace","tag-forgiveness","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-sin-and-repentance","tag-spiritual-striving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}