{"id":7440,"date":"2021-07-29T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:54:53","slug":"thoughtful-thursday-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2021\/07\/29\/thoughtful-thursday-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursday: Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s sermon topic, \u201cKindness\u201d is a word that is used so much and by so many people that I think it has lost its\u2019 true meaning. It\u2019s mostly used in a way to direct our actions to make us look like we care, even if we don\u2019t. But \u201ckindness\u201d doesn\u2019t just mean \u201cbe nice.\u201d According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kindness\">Wikipedia<\/a>, it \u201cis a type of behavior marked by acts of generosity, consideration, or concern for others, without expecting praise or reward.\u201d In other words, genuine kindness is not earned and is not self-centered. \u00a0It is not just outward; it is genuine and from within. Read the selection from Sunday\u2019s verses below to see how the word \u201ckind\u201d is applied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ephesians 4:32<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><u>Be kind to one another<\/u><\/em>, tenderhearted, forgivng one another, as God in christ has fogiven you.<br \/>\n<strong>Luke 6: 35-36<\/strong><br \/>\nBut love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for\u00a0<em><u>he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked<\/u><\/em>.\u00a0Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.<\/p>\n<p>Just as God has been mercifully kind to us when we did not deserve it, he requires us to do the same for others, not based on merit, but because of the example he set for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s sermon topic, \u201cKindness\u201d is a word that is used so much and by so many people that I think it has lost its\u2019 true meaning. It\u2019s mostly used in a way to direct our actions to make us look like we care, even if we don\u2019t. But \u201ckindness\u201d doesn\u2019t just mean \u201cbe nice.\u201d According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,59,304,327,113,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-ages","category-church-news","category-communications","category-fruit-of-the-spirit","category-newsletters","category-thoughtful-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions\/7442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}