{"id":603,"date":"2010-01-21T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-06-19T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:18:00","slug":"ortlund-on-pride-vs-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Ortlund on Pride vs. Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/2010\/01\/19\/i-am-nothing\/\">Ray Ortlund&#8217;s post &#8220;I am nothing&#8221;\u009d<\/a> is another helpful shot at our man-centered thinking. It is brief, but I encourage you to read it. He cites a statement from an Assyrian king:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am royal, I am lordly, I am mighty, I am honored, I am exalted, I am glorified, I am powerful, I am all-powerful, I am brilliant, I am lion-brave, I am manly, I am supreme, I am noble.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He contrasts this with Christ. What hit me was how the Assyrian quote parallels how we are often encouraged to think of leadership and pastoral ministry. May we be Christlike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Ortlund&#8217;s post &#8220;I am nothing&#8221;\u009d is another helpful shot at our man-centered thinking. It is brief, but I encourage you to read it. He cites a statement from an Assyrian king: &#8220;I am royal, I am lordly, I am mighty, I am honored, I am exalted, I am glorified, I am powerful, I am &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ortlund on Pride vs. Christ&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,36,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}