{"id":3278,"date":"2012-10-06T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2012-10-06T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:23:33","slug":"holy-communion-is-medicine-comfort-and-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/holy-communion-is-medicine-comfort-and-bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Communion is Medicine, Comfort, and Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Calvin,<br \/>\n&#8220;Let us remember that this sacred feast is medicine to the sick,<br \/>\n comfort to the sinner,<br \/>\nand bounty to the poor.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nIf you came based on being healthy, righteous, and rich it would be of no value. <\/strong>Thus, the best and only worthiness which we can bring to God is to offer him our own vileness and unworthiness, that his mercy may make us worthy; to despond in ourselves that we may be consoled in him; to humble ourselves that we may be elevated; to accuse ourselves that we may be justified by him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/holy-communion-is-medicine-comfort-and-bounty\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Calvin,<br \/> &#8220;Let us remember that this sacred feast is medicine to the sick,<br \/> comfort to the sinner,<br \/> and bounty to the poor.<\/p>\n<p> If you came based on being healthy, righteous, and rich it would be of no value. Thus, the best and only worthiness which we can bring [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-QS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}