{"id":131,"date":"2025-01-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=131"},"modified":"2025-01-15T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:24:50","slug":"excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/01\/25-01-27-snowytrees-DSC_0661-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cBut strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><br>&#8211; 1 Corinthians 12:31 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">God gives each person characteristics of personality and identity as well as spiritual gifts. Think of your own, and consider which is your most excellent gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.\u201d &#8211; 1 Corinthians 12:31 (NRSVue) Activity God gives each person characteristics of personality and identity as well as spiritual gifts. Think of your own, and consider which is your most excellent gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}