{"id":1841,"date":"2013-02-08T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2013-02-08T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T14:30:01","slug":"redefining-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2013\/redefining-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my morning reading from a collage of Scriptures, I read this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\" style=\"background:#86dddd; margin:2em 7em\">Ye are my friends,<br \/>\nif ye do whatsoever I command you.<br \/>\nJohn 15:14<\/div>\n<p>But then, in the next verse, Jesus says&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\" style=\"background:#86dddd; margin:2em 4em\">Henceforth I call you not servants;<br \/>\nfor the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:<br \/>\nbut I have called you friends.<br \/>\nJohn 15:15<\/div>\n<p>How am I not a servant if I do whatever the Lord tells me to do?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, how can I be the Lord&#8217;s friend if I don&#8217;t do what He says?<\/p>\n<p>Servant or friend, I don&#8217;t deserve any kind of good relationship with the Almighty.<\/p>\n<p>(These were the last and first verses in what I read this morning: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Daily-Light-On-The-Path\/dp\/0883685566\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=markroth-ph-20&linkId=3d32535eda171355f4dd1f000ad72b3c\" title=\"Buy on Amazon with this affiliate link: Daily Light on the Daily Path\">Daily Light on the Daily Path<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May I be a friend of Jesus Christ without doing what He says?<!-- 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":[7],"tags":[51,44,46,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-1841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-john","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-live-right","9":"tag-obedience","10":"tag-surrender","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-tH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}