{"id":75,"date":"2017-06-26T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T10:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2017-07-11T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T19:02:45","slug":"god-as-father","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/god-as-father\/","title":{"rendered":"God as Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style2\">The Father<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">The incredible thing about the way <strong>Jesus<\/strong> revealed God was as &#8220;<strong>Father<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">Whatever God is really like &#8211; i.e. beyond our ability to understand &#8211; he chooses to reveal himself as like a father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">He asks us to pray by speaking to him as &#8220;<strong>Our Father<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">In fact the word that Paul the apostle used was &#8220;Abba&#8221; &#8211; which literally meant &#8220;<strong>Daddy<\/strong>&#8221; or &#8220;<strong>Papa<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\">So not some distant &#8220;Father Figure&#8221; but rather our <strong>Dad in heaven<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend the film &#8220;The Shack&#8221; as an insight into the nature of God and how &#8220;He&#8221; feels about you.<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<h6>Jesus said to him, <span style=\"color: red;\">\u201cI am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: red;\">If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.\u201d <\/span><\/h6>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Father The incredible thing about the way Jesus revealed God was as &#8220;Father&#8220; Whatever God is really like &#8211; i.e. beyond our ability to understand &#8211; he chooses to reveal himself as like a father. He asks us to pray by speaking to him as &#8220;Our Father&#8220; In fact the word that Paul the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/god-as-father\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God as Father&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}