{"id":317,"date":"2005-08-24T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-09-05T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T04:16:58","slug":"set-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/set-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. &#8211; Gal 5:22-23<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden&#8230; But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out&#8230; you know very well what I would see; brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the applauding crowds&#8230;<br \/>\nYet in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people&#8230; They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a compliment! A <i>quiet and holy people<\/I><\/p>\n<p>Quiet&#8230; Not obnoxious. Not boastful. Not demanding. Just quiet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Holy&#8230; Set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we could all take a lesson from third century Christians. Instead of standing up and demanding our ways be met, protesting every little thing we don&#8217;t like, maybe we should take a Christlike attitude towards politics and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of yelling at the lost, why don&#8217;t we calm down  and show them how we were once found.<\/p>\n<p>(HT <em>The Inspirational Study Bible<\/em> &#8211; Max Lucado)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. &#8211; Gal 5:22-23 In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus: This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden&#8230; But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out&#8230; you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/set-apart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Set Apart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[751,4273,4650,4272],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-christianity","tag-donatus","tag-faith","tag-st-cyprian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-57","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}