{"id":210,"date":"2025-06-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=210"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:40:51","slug":"fruit-of-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/fruit-of-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-30-DSC_0908-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-30-DSC_0908-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-30-DSC_0908-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-30-DSC_0908-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-30-DSC_0908-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-30-DSC_0908-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A flowering tree at McDowell Grove in Naperville, Ill. Photo by Joel Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cThe fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br>&#8211; Galatians 5:22b-23 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Take a look at the news of the day, online or in a newspaper, and see if you can find examples of these fruits of the Spirit. How are people living these out in daily life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.\u201d&#8211; Galatians 5:22b-23 (NRSVue) Activity Take a look at the news of the day, online or in a newspaper, and see if you can find examples of these fruits of the Spirit. How<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211,"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-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}