{"id":4371,"date":"2025-11-17T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:49:47","slug":"le-cercle-nouveau-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/le-cercle-nouveau-format\/","title":{"rendered":"GENTLE and LOWLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 Nov 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been enjoying reading <em>\u2018Gentle and Lowly\u2019 \u2013 The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers\u2019 <\/em>by Dane Ortlund. Here are some extracts I have been blessed with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c Jesus is the most understanding person in the universe. The posture most natural to him is not a pointed finger but open arms.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c Matthew 11 tells us explicitly who qualifies for fellowship with Jesus: \u2018all who labor and are heavy laden.\u2019 . Your very burden is what qualifies you to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c Time and again it is the morally disgusting, the socially revived, the inexcusable and undeserving, who do not simply receive Christ\u2019s mercy but to whom Christ most naturally gravitates. He is, by his enemies\u2019 testimony, the \u2018friend of sinners\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026 When Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move towards that sin and suffering, not away from it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c The same one who reached out and touched lepers puts his arm around us today when we feel misunderstood and sidelined.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by Yukki: Night fall over the Allier River, Vichy- Central France <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 Nov 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}