{"id":731,"date":"2010-04-08T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceepc.org\/?p=731"},"modified":"2010-04-08T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:17:54","slug":"where-the-sick-people-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Where the Sick People Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/graceepc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Where-the-sick-people-go.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-732\" title=\"Where the sick people go\" src=\"http:\/\/graceepc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Where-the-sick-people-go.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Did you read a Glance at Grace, April edition? Good, so you know Doug wrote about the church as a hospital not a museum\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>So the idea of church as a hospital\u2026 Jesus answered some folks who were criticizing the company he kept by saying, \u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder why the people in church sometimes seem nastier than the people outside the church? We\u2019re the sick. We\u2019re sinners. We\u2019re here because we\u2019re broken, sick, we need help, healing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ever spend any time in a hospital? As a patient? Ever have a grouchy roommate?<\/p>\n<p>I think I am that grouchy roommate. I\u2019m an impatient patient: What are all these sick people doing here? Can\u2019t they get better? Why don\u2019t they heal any faster? Good grief look at this guy, he looks worse every day. Stop coughing on me!<\/p>\n<p>Then I look around and realize, huh, I\u2019m in a bed too. And whoa, that\u2019s some ugly stuff, oozing out of me. I think they call it pride. Doesn\u2019t smell too good either. Must be a secondary infection called arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>I go to physical therapy and spend time jumping\u2026. to conclusions. \u201cNo, no,\u201d says the therapist gently, \u201clet\u2019s slow down. Why don\u2019t you try kneeling for perspective instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I get back to the room and a nurse is ready to pour some alcohol onto the festering wound. Yow! That hurts!! Are these people trying to kill me?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. And maybe that\u2019s the point. Self dying, and Jesus in me growing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in for a long stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you read a Glance at Grace, April edition? Good, so you know Doug wrote about the church as a hospital not a museum\u2026. So the idea of church as a hospital\u2026 Jesus answered some folks who were criticizing the company he kept by saying, \u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0qX-bN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}