{"id":1349,"date":"2017-03-30T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2018-01-20T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T14:52:14","slug":"balancing-gods-grace-and-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/balancing-gods-grace-and-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing God&#8217;s Grace and Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My first exposure to abortion was during my college years. A friend from high school wrote a letter to tell me that she had gotten pregnant by her boyfriend. She was advised by her doctor to have an abortion because he felt her health was at risk. I responded to her letter and expressed by opposition to abortion. That was the last communication we had for many years and I wonder now if I came across as self righteous. As believers we struggle to balance God&#8217;s grace and His truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I started volunteering at the PRCG in the Summer of 2011. My oldest daughter got married that summer and my youngest was headed to college in the fall, so I needed to fill some of my time. I have always believed that abortion grieves God&#8217;s heart and being the mother of 3 daughters, I also realized that there could come a time when I was faced with the possibility of dealing with this issue personally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The PRCG gives me the opportunity to love on women during desperate times and\u00a0I also know the clinic strives to share medical truth and the gospel with each patient that is served!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; A note from a volunteer receptionist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first exposure to abortion was during my college years. A friend from high school wrote a letter to tell me that she had gotten pregnant by her boyfriend. She was advised by her doctor to have an abortion because he felt her health was at risk. I responded to her letter and expressed by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ben-white-161594.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofobria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}