{"id":2110,"date":"2016-03-05T06:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2016-03-05T06:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T14:21:58","slug":"me-follow-jesus-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2016\/me-follow-jesus-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Me? Follow Jesus With Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Jesus calls four hard-working fellows who gainfully pursued an honorable occupation. But then He up and calls one of those tax collector “things”!<\/p>\n

Suppose you had been one of the fishermen. Would you have been aghast and insulted that Jesus would have called Matthew just as readily as He called you? I wonder how many of us would have resisted the preposterous notion that we follow Jesus in the company of a publican<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Aren’t we so strange, vain, and arrogant? I mean, just how good do we think we are, anyway?! Think about it… <\/p>\n

Are we such better company
\nfor the glorious, sinless One?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading:<\/p>\n

Mark 1:16-20; 2:14<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

(An excerpt of a piece originally written in early 2002 for publication by Christian Light Publications<\/a>: Jesus Heals and Calls<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"a<\/a>
\nAs I have loved you…<\/em><\/div>\n

© Copyright 2002, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I such better company for the glorious, sinless One?<\/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":[32],"tags":[51,103,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-2110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mark","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-humility","9":"tag-live-right","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-y2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}