{"id":6725,"date":"2017-01-07T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2017-01-05T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:36:59","slug":"ministering-to-those-with-physical-ailments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6725","title":{"rendered":"MINISTERING TO THOSE WITH PHYSICAL AILMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=6727\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6727\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nypl.digitalcollections.68f38907-3bfd-7561-e040-e00a18067bfe.001.w-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"nypl-digitalcollections-68f38907-3bfd-7561-e040-e00a18067bfe-001-w\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nypl.digitalcollections.68f38907-3bfd-7561-e040-e00a18067bfe.001.w-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nypl.digitalcollections.68f38907-3bfd-7561-e040-e00a18067bfe.001.w-300x448.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nypl.digitalcollections.68f38907-3bfd-7561-e040-e00a18067bfe.001.w.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many of us experience awkwardness when we see someone whose physical struggle limits a &#8220;normal life.&#8221;\u00a0 They may be paralyzed or missing a limb.\u00a0 Whatever the problem, I believe a Gnostic-like understanding of the body, even for too many evangelical Christians, makes us unable to minister more holistically to those who battle with daily pain and the limits placed on them by physical problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us experience awkwardness when we see someone whose physical struggle limits a &#8220;normal life.&#8221;\u00a0 They may be paralyzed or missing a limb.\u00a0 Whatever the problem, I believe a Gnostic-like understanding of the body, even for too many evangelical Christians, makes us unable to minister more holistically to those who battle with daily pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-healers","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}