{"id":1099,"date":"2007-04-28T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:55","slug":"mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Dr. Diane Langberg&#8217;s speech at the 2007 PCA Mercy Conference:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suffering leaves us speechless. Speaking is necessary for healing. Christians need to give the sufferer a voice. It is redemptive.<\/p>\n<p>Christians are the rescue workers of this world.<br \/>We are to bind up the broken-hearted. We are called to live &#038; work among the &#8216;tombs&#8217;&#8211;among &#8216;dead people&#8217;. If we work among the &#8216;dead&#8217;, we must believe in the Resurrection &amp; be on our knees in repentance.<\/p>\n<p>Worship is our strength.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering is swallowed up in God&#8217;s Glory.<br \/>He uses it for His Glory. Work here turns scars into Glory.<br \/>God will use the sufferings of others to drive us to Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from Dr. Diane Langberg&#8217;s speech at the 2007 PCA Mercy Conference: &#8220;Suffering leaves us speechless. Speaking is necessary for healing. Christians need to give the sufferer a voice. It is redemptive. Christians are the rescue workers of this world.We are to bind up the broken-hearted. We are called to live &#038; work among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}