{"id":656,"date":"2013-04-12T19:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2013-04-13T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:42:46","slug":"it-really-is-better-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/it-really-is-better-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"It really is better to give&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apostle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=acts%2020:32-35&#038;version=NIV\">Paul cites a saying of Jesus<\/a> (not recorded in the gospel accounts):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: \u2018It is more blessed to give than to receive.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to this New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/31\/magazine\/is-giving-the-secret-to-getting-ahead.html?src=me&#038;ref=general&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;_r=2&#038;\">profile of Wharton Business School professor Adam Grant<\/a>, Jesus just might have been on to something:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Grant, helping is not the enemy of productivity, a time-sapping diversion from the actual work at hand; it is the mother lode, the motivator that spurs increased productivity and creativity. In some sense, he has built a career in professional motivation by trying to unpack the puzzle of his own success. He has always helped; he has always been productive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apostle Paul cites a saying of Jesus (not recorded in the gospel accounts): In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: \u2018It is more blessed to give than to receive.\u2019 According to this New York &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/it-really-is-better-to-give\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[538,539,8,535,16,414,176,536,537],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-adam-grant","tag-benevolence","tag-bible","tag-business","tag-compassion","tag-giving","tag-jesus","tag-strategy","tag-wharton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}