{"id":2785,"date":"2019-03-10T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T00:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2019-03-10T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T00:29:57","slug":"chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"The Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an incredible worship service today at 12Stone Church &#8230;\u00a0God tells us we (those who follow him) should be different, and above all, \u00a0love others.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I Peter 2:9-12<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God\u2019s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you\u2014from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do you prefer the color or B&amp;W version?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2786\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900-1c.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2786\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2786\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900-1c-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Worship Him.\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900-1c-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900-1c-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900-1c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worship Him<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2789\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900c.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2789\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2789\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900c-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Worship Him\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900c-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900c-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/L1007900c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worship Him<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an incredible worship service today at 12Stone Church &#8230;\u00a0God tells us we (those who follow him) should be different, and above all, \u00a0love others. I Peter 2:9-12\u00a0But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God\u2019s instruments to do his work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,35,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}