{"id":6693,"date":"2022-06-10T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"as-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6693","title":{"rendered":"AS IF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internet attributes the following quote to C.S. Lewis, John Wesley, Irenaeus, and St. Augustine:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whoever originated it, it has been around for years. And it has come out of the mouths of countless preachers, I suppose. And whenever I hear it, it bothers me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message seems well-intentioned: &#8220;Pray hard and work hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, it bugs me. Something is off. And here&#8217;s how I know that it&#8217;s flawed &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t imagine Jesus saying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet attributes the following quote to C.S. Lewis, John Wesley, Irenaeus, and St. Augustine: \u00a0 &#8220;Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.&#8221;\u00a0 Whoever originated it, it has been around for years. And it has come out of the mouths of countless preachers, I suppose. And whenever I [&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-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","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=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}