{"id":626,"date":"2010-03-05T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:45:01","slug":"joy-in-communion-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Joy in Communion, Once More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously commented here on the fact that we should come joyfully to the Lord&#8217;s table contrary to some practice and teaching we have received. <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/2010\/03\/04\/with-a-holy-cheerfulness\/\">Ray Ortlund recently posted<\/a> this quote which nicely affirms this point as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We come as children to our Father&#8217;s table and to sit there with Jesus Christ, our elder brother. Now a father does not love to have his child sitting in a sullen and dogged way at his table or to be crying, but would rather have the child sitting in comfort with a holy cheerfulness, with a holy freedom of spirit, not in a sullen way, but as a child in the presence of his father, and not as a servant with the master.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah Burroughs, <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gospel-Worship-Jeremiah-Burroughs\/dp\/1877611123?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Worship<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zptrupnukydrygmvjvbg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=1877611123\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span> (Ligonier, 1990), page 330.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously commented here on the fact that we should come joyfully to the Lord&#8217;s table contrary to some practice and teaching we have received. Ray Ortlund recently posted this quote which nicely affirms this point as well. &#8220;We come as children to our Father&#8217;s table and to sit there with Jesus Christ, our &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Joy in Communion, Once More&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":[6,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}