{"id":1542,"date":"2010-06-04T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T10:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","slug":"pauls-burden-for-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s Burden For Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us\u00a0Muse today from Colossians 2:2 and<em> Paul&#8217;s burden\u00a0for unity<\/em>. It is amazing as I travel from place to place, to find so many bent on making their point, no matter the division it may cause in the body of Christ. When we get people in the word, <em>truth will cause unity<\/em>. Paul&#8217;s desire is that their <em>hearts might be comforted<\/em>. The word heart means a man&#8217;s thoughts, feelings, and doings. It was Paul&#8217;s burden that this\u00a0people may be comforted. The word comforted means to be called near\u00a0for exhortation.\u00a0Christ&#8217;s desires is\u00a0that we be <em>knit together<\/em>, which is a term of unity. The center of this unity must be <em>love<\/em>. True love is Christ embodied. True unity will be reached only when we center our thoughts,\u00a0feelings, and doings around Him\u00a0and His word<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0Muse today from Colossians 2:2 and Paul&#8217;s burden\u00a0for unity. It is amazing as I travel from place to place, to find so many bent on making their point, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}