{"id":7689,"date":"2020-02-13T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=7689"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:52:04","slug":"lastinglove","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/lastinglove\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasting Love Extends Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">BY RICK WARREN<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cAlways be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other\u2019s faults because of your love\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>(Ephesians 4:2 NLT).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because every relationship involves two sinners, we have to learn how to show grace to each other if we want to have a love that lasts. No relationship will survive without grace. You\u2019ve got to cut people some slack! You\u2019ve got to let things go.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible says,\u00a0<em>\u201cLove patiently accepts all things\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(1 Corinthians 13:7 NCV). In the original Greek, this literally means \u201ccovered with a roof.\u201d Would you buy a house without a roof? Of course not. You\u2019d have no protection from wind and rain. A roof covers and protects your home.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, biblical love covers a relationship and lets some things slide. It doesn\u2019t haul people into account for every mistake they make. You need a roof on your relationship because people damage pretty easily, and we need the kind of love that extends grace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7691 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lasting-2-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is grace essential to relationships?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible says in Romans 3:10 that <strong>no one always does what is right.<\/strong> Nobody gets it right 100 percent of the time. It\u2019s never just one person\u2019s fault. There\u2019s always a responsibility on both sides. It takes two people to disagree!<\/p>\n<p>We have to learn to extend grace to each other, because forgiveness is a two-way street. We cannot receive what we\u2019re unwilling to give to other people.<\/p>\n<p>You build strong relationships by treating other people the way God treats you. Romans 15:7 says,\u00a0<em>\u201c<strong>Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(NLT). When you accept others as they are, looking past their faults for the sake of love, that\u2019s extending grace.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-7689","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7689\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}