{"id":6751,"date":"2019-06-13T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2019-06-08T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T01:51:23","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-13-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6751","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Savior says, \u201cyou cannot be my disciple unless you \u2018<strong>Deny yourself, \u00a0 take up your cross and follow Me!\u2019\u00a0 <\/strong>How do we respond to these three commands? \u00a0This seems to be the definitive test for discipleship. Within these three commands are found the answer to our most penetrating question: Am I really a follower of Jesus Christ, am I really His disciple? Or am I just playing a game with myself, pretending to be something that I really am not? Am I living an authentic Christian life? Am I fulfilling what I was created to be\u2014a human being made in the image and likeness of God?\u201d<br \/>\n(Homily at Holy Cross Hermitage Monastery in WV)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6752\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/article-2289607-187BCFD6000005DC-318_634x286-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/article-2289607-187BCFD6000005DC-318_634x286-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/article-2289607-187BCFD6000005DC-318_634x286.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Savior says, \u201cyou cannot be my disciple unless you \u2018Deny yourself, \u00a0 take up your cross and follow Me!\u2019\u00a0 How do we respond to these three commands? \u00a0This seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}