{"id":4765,"date":"2019-05-28T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2019-05-28T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:48:35","slug":"intimately-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4765","title":{"rendered":"Intimately connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(19, 21, 22); color: rgb(19, 21, 22); font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">The teaching of the New Testament is that God\u2019s grace, our free will, and our faith and good works, are intimately connected. The Holy Spirit energizes in us both faith and good works as we thirst for and seek God\u2019s grace. Neither faith nor good works can be presented as merit before God, but only as return gifts in humility, love, and thanksgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.399999618530273px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teaching of the New Testament is that God\u2019s grace, our free will, and our faith and good works, are intimately connected. The Holy Spirit energizes in us both faith and good works as we thirst for and seek God\u2019s grace. Neither faith nor good works can be presented as merit before God, but only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intimately connected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}