{"id":9552,"date":"2023-03-11T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9552","title":{"rendered":"CHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the saddest things I have ever heard come out of the mouth of a pastor was this sentence: &#8220;People don&#8217;t change.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it just me? Isn&#8217;t a part of a pastor&#8217;s job to encourage change and growth? And even suffer, if necessary, to see it happen?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Apostle Paul refers to the Galatians as &#8220;My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you&#8221;. (Gal 4:19)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know Paul couldn&#8217;t have experienced a 100% success rate in his &#8220;labors&#8221;, but surely it wasn&#8217;t 0 either.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe change happens, but so slowly it is difficult to track.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Not that it couldn&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t happen quickly.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the saddest things I have ever heard come out of the mouth of a pastor was this sentence: &#8220;People don&#8217;t change.&#8221;\u00a0 Is it just me? Isn&#8217;t a part of a pastor&#8217;s job to encourage change and growth? And even suffer, if necessary, to see it happen? The Apostle Paul refers to the Galatians [&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-9552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552","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=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9553,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions\/9553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}