{"id":7517,"date":"2021-09-02T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2021-09-02T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:45:04","slug":"thoughtful-thursday-sundays-sermon-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2021\/09\/02\/thoughtful-thursday-sundays-sermon-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursday &#8211; Sunday&#8217;s Sermon Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2 Thessalonians 3:6-15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u00a0 6\u00a0<\/sup>Now we command you, beloved,\u00a0in the name of our Lord\u00a0Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are\u00a0living in\u00a0idleness and not according to the tradition that they\u00a0received from us.\u00a0<sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,\u00a0<sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>and we did not eat anyone\u2019s bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you.\u00a0<sup>9\u00a0<\/sup>This was not because we do not have that right, but in\u00a0\u00a0 order to give you an example to imitate.\u00a0<sup>10\u00a0<\/sup>For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.\u00a0<sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.\u00a0<sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.\u00a0<sup>13\u00a0<\/sup>Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right.<br \/>\n<sup>\u00a0\u00a0 14\u00a0<\/sup>Take note of those who do not obey what we say in this letter; have nothing to do with them, so that they may be ashamed.\u00a0<sup>15\u00a0<\/sup>Do not regard them as enemies, but warn them as believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 \u00a0 6\u00a0Now we command you, beloved,\u00a0in the name of our Lord\u00a0Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are\u00a0living in\u00a0idleness and not according to the tradition that they\u00a0received from us.\u00a07\u00a0For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,\u00a08\u00a0and we did not eat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,294,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news","category-thoughtful-thursday","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}