{"id":4905,"date":"2021-02-14T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","slug":"wrong-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4905","title":{"rendered":"WRONG TURN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0As I wrote a few days ago, coming to a deep recognition of humanity&#8217;s sinfulness has made me much more forgiving. I am no longer surprised by sin\u00a0 &#8211; either my own or anybody else&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s another of my growing convictions that likewise makes me more forgiving: All sin is birthed from a legitimate need that takes a wrong turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if, instead of being offended by someone&#8217;s sin against us, we considered it a challenge to get to the bottom of what that person really needs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As I wrote a few days ago, coming to a deep recognition of humanity&#8217;s sinfulness has made me much more forgiving. I am no longer surprised by sin\u00a0 &#8211; either my own or anybody else&#8217;s.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another of my growing convictions that likewise makes me more forgiving: All sin is birthed from a legitimate need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}