{"id":3877,"date":"2019-06-29T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2019-06-29T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:22:59","slug":"how-to-respond-to-treachery-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2019\/how-to-respond-to-treachery-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respond to Treachery in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I say to treacherous, deceitful Brothers in Christ:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I love you.<\/li>\n<li>I forgive you.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t see you as my enemy.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t trust you so much.<\/li>\n<li>My trust is available for you to win back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I want to say those five things consistently, dependably, and truthfully from my heart. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b.jpg\" alt=\"Glory to pass over a transgression (Proverbs 19:11)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you are battling this kind of thing, I invite you to read some pertinent things I&#8217;ve written in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2010\/the-crisis-of-forgiveness\/\">The Crisis of Forgiveness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/how-often-should-i-forgive\/\">How Often Should I Forgive?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/offenses\/\">Offenses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/cease-from-strife\/\">Cease from Strife<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2014\/pass-over-that-transgression\/\">Pass Over That Transgression!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2014\/making-peace-with-meekness-and-forgiveness\/\">Making Peace With Meekness and Forgiveness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/when-god-directs-evil\/\">When God Directs Evil<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A determination to show love, forgiveness, and grace<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[72,880,800],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-christianity","tag-life-lessons","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-10x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}