{"id":9117,"date":"2023-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-culture-of-reform\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:00:00","slug":"the-culture-of-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-culture-of-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What most people like is for you to praise them. If you have a beneficial word, do not expect it to be always accepted, if you said it. Those who accept the word are those who believe that God constantly addresses us in order to be better, that is, to be His and in His service. Our heritage goes far beyond this. It encourages us to accept the word of rebuke that sometimes comes to us out of place. It asks us to keep it for the sake of any flaw in us, for which we know we deserve to be rebuked. I believe that the goal of this encouragement is to establish a culture of reform. This is an encouragement to all people; to those who give forth beneficial words and to those to whom they are addressed. Without this saving conviction, the world is meaningless, complicated, backwards and insane. It is just an advice! Do not be filled with wonder at the words of praise to which we are commanded to turn a deaf ear. Receive the beneficial word with joy. This makes us be its servants like the one who gives it forth and grants us the opportunity to hope for the praise of heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What most people like is for you to praise them. If you have a beneficial word, do not expect it to be always accepted, if you said it. Those who accept the word are those who believe that God constantly addresses us in order to be better, that is, to be His and in His ...<\/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":[2000,361,2001,1293,447,413,1241],"class_list":["post-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-beneficial-words","tag-church","tag-culture-of-reform","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-orthodox-church","tag-repentance","tag-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}