{"id":543,"date":"2017-05-10T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/?p=543"},"modified":"2017-05-12T02:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:12:57","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPASSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Definition:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brief Explanation:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Compassion is love in action. Jesus was frequently moved with compassion on behalf of someone, releasing His power on behalf of another. It is still a key to the counseling process, and ministry in general. To be compassionate is to care deeply for another, communicated in empathy, warmth and respect, and which, unlike pity, shows the client that you care, and have every belief that with God and them, they can overcome.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Word of God:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matthew 9:36<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because \u00a0they \u00a0were \u00a0distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luke 7:13<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd when the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her. \u2018Do not weep.\u2019 \u201d<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Colossians 3:12<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience\u2026\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">1 Peter 3:8<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo sum it up, let all be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted and humble in spirit.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">James 1:27<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. Brief Explanation: Compassion is love in action. Jesus was frequently moved with compassion on behalf of someone, releasing His power on behalf of another. It is still a key to the counseling process, and ministry in general. To be compassionate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counseling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision.edu\/iaccp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}