{"id":47074,"date":"2014-11-15T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=47074"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:23:07","slug":"the-cost-of-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/15\/the-cost-of-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, Jason Stellman, a Presbyterian pastor converted to Catholicism. I remember when he converted that there were lots of nasty comments in his Comment Box saying that he was converting for the “fame” and the “money” which apparently\u00a0comes with being a Catholic convert. Well, two years later, on the anniversary of his entrance into the Church, Jason posted a reflection\u00a0concerning his life now he’s Catholic. It’s a sobering read.<\/p>\n

If any man would come after me, let him deny\u00a0himself and take up his cross and follow me.<\/em> – Mark 8:34<\/span><\/p>\n

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By the way, if you’re ever looking to study Paul’s epistle to the Galatians, I can thoroughly recommend the six-part series<\/a> freely available on Jason’s website. It’s really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, Jason Stellman, a Presbyterian pastor converted to Catholicism. I remember when he converted that there were lots of nasty comments in his Comment Box saying that he was converting for the “fame” and the “money” which apparently\u00a0comes with being a Catholic convert. Well, two years later, on the anniversary of his entrance into the Church,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1485,2848,406,2847],"class_list":["post-47074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-convert","tag-cost","tag-cross","tag-jason-stellman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49357,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47074\/revisions\/49357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}