{"id":8151,"date":"2021-01-09T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","slug":"potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8151","title":{"rendered":"POTENTIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0If you&#8217;re convinced that upon meeting Jesus face to face you would more likely be greeted with a pointed criticism than with a compliment, it is worth noting that even though Nathanael got such a positive reception from Jesus, he did not go on to be one of the &#8220;major players&#8221; in the gospel narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, the guy Jesus once called &#8220;Satan&#8221;, Simon Peter, starred not only in key gospel moments (both in positive and negative ways), but became instrumental in establishing Christ&#8217;s church on this earth.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter what kind of character we have when we first meet Jesus, there is plenty of space to grow more like Him. And He can use us as we grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If you&#8217;re convinced that upon meeting Jesus face to face you would more likely be greeted with a pointed criticism than with a compliment, it is worth noting that even though Nathanael got such a positive reception from Jesus, he did not go on to be one of the &#8220;major players&#8221; in the gospel narratives. [&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-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","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=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8152,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}