{"id":7857,"date":"2025-03-01T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","slug":"ali-spoke-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7857","title":{"rendered":"ALI SPOKE TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.&#8221; \u2015 Muhammad Ali<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would venture to say the same thing is true of a person who views faith the same at 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no doubt many believers would disagree. I think most implicitly take utter consistency over the long haul as the height of holiness and piety.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose it could be &#8211; assuming you lucked out and grew up in the perfect church with the perfect doctrine and pitch-perfect balance in all things. And not a single false view of God or Scripture ever took root in your imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if that wasn&#8217;t your experience, then holding to the same faith at 50 as you did at 20 isn&#8217;t admirable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It means you&#8217;ve stagnated. A long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.&#8221; \u2015 Muhammad Ali I would venture to say the same thing is true of a person who views faith the same at 50.\u00a0 I have no doubt many believers would disagree. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,135,59,136,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners-mindset","category-consistency","category-faith","category-stages-of-faith","category-stagnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","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=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}