{"id":194,"date":"2008-04-18T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-04-18T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T00:32:13","slug":"erwin-on-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/erwin-on-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Erwin on Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading <em>Chasing Daylight<\/em> and liked this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Long before September 11, I made it my personal mission to crusade against a long-standing Christian cliche. &#8230; I lament that it has become an accepted part of pop theology that the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; [T]he center of God&#8217;s will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world. God fears nothing and no one. God moves with intentionality and power. To live outside God&#8217;s will puts us in danger, but to live in His will makes us dangerous. &#8230; When we begin to seize our divine moments, we do not begin to live risk-free, but instead become free to risk.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from the last page of chapter 6, &#8220;Risk,&#8221; on p. 151 of the paperback edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Chasing Daylight and liked this: Long before September 11, I made it my personal mission to crusade against a long-standing Christian cliche. &#8230; I lament that it has become an accepted part of pop theology that the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God. &#8230; &#8230; [T]he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-38","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}