{"id":3226,"date":"2016-04-13T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2016-04-13T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:35:22","slug":"what-difference-does-it-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turn this statement of infamy into a meaningful word for thought.<\/p>\n<p>What difference does it make to follow Jesus?<\/p>\n<p>One, you don&#8217;t have to lie.<\/p>\n<p>Two, the problems of life are not pointless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to leave it at that, for you to think and make your own applications.<\/p>\n<p>Following Jesus does make a difference&#8212;all the difference in the world, and then some&#8212;more, much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn this statement of infamy into a meaningful word for thought. What difference does it make to follow Jesus? One, you don&#8217;t have to lie. Two, the problems of life are not pointless. &nbsp; I&#8217;m going to leave it at that, for you to think and make your own applications. Following Jesus does make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}