{"id":2051,"date":"2014-10-13T08:44:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2014-10-13T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:44:39","slug":"francis-schaeffer-the-only-place-of-joy-and-the-only-place-of-usefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Francis Schaeffer &#8211; &#8220;the only place of joy and the only place of usefulness&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Just as the slave must \u201cwill\u201d the will of his master, our usefulness to Jesus depends on the extent to which we will the will of God. We are not robots. Rather, in love we choose to return to the position of obedient dependence on God in which He created us. This may seem an unpleasant idea to some, but as God\u2019s creatures this \u201cslaveness\u201d is the only place of joy and the only place of usefulness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schaeffer, Francis A. (1998-09-24). The Finished Work of Christ: The Truth of Romans 1-8 (p. 8). Crossway. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the slave must \u201cwill\u201d the will of his master, our usefulness to Jesus depends on the extent to which we will the will of God. We are not robots. Rather, in love we choose to return to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=2051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-x5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}