{"id":3974,"date":"2024-04-13T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2024-04-13T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T18:06:15","slug":"faith-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"Faith Muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Faith is not knowledge. It is <em>living what you know is true in your heart,<\/em> even when you have no physical proof that it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Which means that when we talk about the \u201cgathering of the faithful,\u201d we\u2019re not talking about the gathering of those who\u2019s faith\/knowledge is absolute. We\u2019re talking about those people who have all kinds of questions and doubts but still find joy and wonder in this message of good news about new life.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking about those who have hope.\u00a0\u00a0When we build our faith muscle, we can be as Jesus said, <strong>Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.\u201d\u00a0 That takes practice!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/40388ddeb78385bd16cbb8f950647efc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3975 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/40388ddeb78385bd16cbb8f950647efc-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/40388ddeb78385bd16cbb8f950647efc-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/40388ddeb78385bd16cbb8f950647efc-1024x925.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/40388ddeb78385bd16cbb8f950647efc-768x694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/40388ddeb78385bd16cbb8f950647efc.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith is not knowledge. It is living what you know is true in your heart, even when you have no physical proof that it is. Which means that when we talk about the \u201cgathering of the faithful,\u201d we\u2019re not talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3974\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}