{"id":749,"date":"2014-09-10T08:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-09-10T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:07:18","slug":"a-hospital-for-sinners-part-7133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/a-hospital-for-sinners-part-7133\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hospital for Sinners (Part 7,133)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a saying that goes, &#8220;Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatironschurch.com\/\">One of my favorite churches<\/a> has a slogan of &#8220;Me Too.&#8221; I met someone at the Tuesday AA meeting at church who told me, &#8220;I&#8217;m a drunk, and the only thing that helps me stay sober is being with other drunks.&#8221; Put all those thoughts together and you get something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/if-only-you-knew-what-i-know\">Tim Chailles&#8217;\u00a0review<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005CHVTL0\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005CHVTL0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=accretiondisc-20&amp;linkId=TTMQA3XUFNMLDQGU\">Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=accretiondisc-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005CHVTL0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a saying that goes, &#8220;Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.&#8221; One of my favorite churches has a slogan of &#8220;Me Too.&#8221; I met someone at the Tuesday AA meeting at church who told me, &#8220;I&#8217;m a drunk, and the only thing that helps me stay sober is &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/a-hospital-for-sinners-part-7133\/\">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":[616,15,618,617,615,61],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-addiction","tag-church","tag-communitas","tag-me-too","tag-recovery","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}