{"id":1543,"date":"2025-11-16T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:14:28","slug":"church-as-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/11\/16\/church-as-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Church as Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s Gospel reading is the teaching of the Church as Hospital, Jesus as the Great Physician and sin as sickness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Matthew 9:9-13 King James Version<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Gospel reading is the teaching of the Church as Hospital, Jesus as the Great Physician and sin as sickness. Matthew 9:9-13 King James Version 9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}