{"id":30590,"date":"2021-01-10T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30590"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T19:14:07","slug":"the-grace-of-our-lord-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=30590","title":{"rendered":"The Grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Buti Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/><br \/>One of the most popular liturgies in the Christian faith is to &#8220;share the grace&#8221;. At the end of many a service or fellowship, we often chorus:<br \/><br \/>&#8220;May the grace our Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>The love of God and the fellowship of The Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us&#8230;&#8221;<br \/><br \/>But what exactly is this &#8220;Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ&#8221;? Apostle Paul gives us a clue in a number of Scriptures:<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 His grace produced HUMILITY &#8211; He exchanged divinity for humanity (Phil. 2:7)<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 His Grace demanded SERVICE &#8211; He washed His Disciples&#8217; feet (Jn.13:14)<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 His Grace demanded OBEDIENCE &#8211; He went to the Cross for us (Phil. 2:8)_<br \/><br \/>\u00b6 His Grace demanded SACRIFICE &#8211; He became poor so we could be enriched (2Cor.8:9)<br \/><br \/>Sharing the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, is not just a rhyme to rehash but a life to live.<br \/><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Kputu, a Lagos-based minister, works with CAPRO, and sent this via WhatsApp<\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Buti Sam Kputu One of the most popular liturgies in the Christian faith is to &#8220;share the grace&#8221;. At the end of many a service or fellowship, we often chorus: &#8220;May the grace our Lord Jesus Christ,The love of God and the fellowship of The Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us&#8230;&#8221; But what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}