{"id":2994,"date":"2013-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/those-who-are-well-have-no-need-of-a-physician-but-those-who-are-sick-i-came-not-to-call-the-righteous-but-sinners-mark-217-esv\/"},"modified":"2013-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"those-who-are-well-have-no-need-of-a-physician-but-those-who-are-sick-i-came-not-to-call-the-righteous-but-sinners-mark-217-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/those-who-are-well-have-no-need-of-a-physician-but-those-who-are-sick-i-came-not-to-call-the-righteous-but-sinners-mark-217-esv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners&#8221; (Mark 2:17 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was Jesus&#8217; reply when challenged by the Pharisees about eating at the tax collector Levi&#8217;s (Matthew&#8217;s) house. The Pharisees were separatists. They would not associate with sinners. But Jesus came to save sinners. How should today&#8217;s church be affected by this? How do we resolve the tension between being holy and being evangelists? Simple. Follow Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was Jesus&#8217; reply when challenged by the Pharisees about eating at the tax collector Levi&#8217;s (Matthew&#8217;s) house. The Pharisees were separatists. They would not associate with sinners. But Jesus came to save sinners. How should today&#8217;s church be affected by this? How do we resolve the tension between being holy and being evangelists? Simple. Follow Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1308],"scripture-chapter":[1335],"oyb_day":[1574],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2994","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-mark","scripture-chapter-1335","oyb_day-february-17"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}