{"id":6867,"date":"2023-04-20T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"what-it-oughta-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IT OUGHTA BE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spiritual growth could be and should be the most fascinating process experienced by humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seriously. The Spirit taking a run-of-the-mill sinner and molding him or her into the image of Christ, the very Son of God? Daily progress towards fulfilling the purpose for which we were created?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a ride that should be! Challenges, setbacks, failures, and victories. All the while, cheered on by the Father and a great cloud of witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a shame, then, &#8211; especially for young people &#8211; when preachers, churches, and various believers around us make spiritual growth seem like drudgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or worse &#8211; unnecessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like homework.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you growing spiritually? If so, has it got you excited?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiritual growth could be and should be the most fascinating process experienced by humans.\u00a0 Seriously. The Spirit taking a run-of-the-mill sinner and molding him or her into the image of Christ, the very Son of God? Daily progress towards fulfilling the purpose for which we were created?\u00a0 What a ride that should be! Challenges, setbacks, [&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-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","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=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}