{"id":8598,"date":"2023-01-05T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","slug":"fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8598","title":{"rendered":"FIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul advises his young prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Timothy, &#8220;Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s quite the phrase when you stop to think about it: the <b><i>good fight<\/i><\/b> of the faith.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the Faith of &#8220;your best life now&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Greek word for fight here is <i>agona<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s where we get our English word &#8220;agony&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It puts me in mind of this quote from C.S. Lewis:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don\u2019t recommend Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul advises his young prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Timothy, &#8220;Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s quite the phrase when you stop to think about it: the good fight of the faith. This is [&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-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","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=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8599,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}