{"id":2002,"date":"2023-12-04T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2023-12-04T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:34:12","slug":"real-repentance-requires-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Real repentance requires repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><sup class=\"versenum\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2004\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent1daycrop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent1daycrop.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent1daycrop-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent1daycrop-844x1024.jpg 844w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advent1daycrop-768x932.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, \u201cBehold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.\u201d Luke 19:8 NASB1995<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Repentance shows itself in deeds, not mere words. Repentance in situations in which\u00a0 we have defrauded someone else of what was rightfully theirs for our own benefit &#8212;and we can do that many ways&#8211;requires more than saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221;\u00a0 It requires that we do everything in our power to repair what we have damaged and restore what we have taken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">December 4, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Zaccheus stopped and said to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}