{"id":65820,"date":"2017-11-29T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65820"},"modified":"2017-11-29T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:35:55","slug":"1st-things-the-christian-way-a-statement-by-evangelicals-and-catholics-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65820","title":{"rendered":"(1st Things) The Christian Way: A Statement By Evangelicals And Catholics Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians freely obey Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. \u201cCome,\u201d he beckons, \u201cfollow me.\u201d <strong>Being a Christian requires more than intellectual or moral agreement with Christian teachings. Christ asks for our love and loyalty. Following him requires conversion, which leads to membership in the Church, the Body of Christ. To be a Christian means being a citizen of a city that has a rich inheritance and glorious future<\/strong>. As the Psalmist says, \u201cWalk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers, consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels; that you may tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will be our guide for ever\u201d (Ps. 48:12\u201314). Christianity is a community of faith shaped by the Holy Spirit, by worship and proclamation, by prayer and spiritual discipline, by ancient rites and teachings that are received from those who have gone before. Within this community of faith, we come to know and enjoy the presence of God.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity is not a religion, if by that we mean one among many expressions of the natural human impulse to encounter the divine. The Christian way of life is rooted in the people of Israel. Christians share with Jews a common heritage reaching back to a time well before the age in which Jesus of Nazareth lived and preached. It begins with God\u2019s gracious promise to Abraham: \u201cGo from your country and your kindred and your father\u2019s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves\u201d (Gen. 12:1\u20133).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2017\/12\/the-christian-way\">Read it all<\/a> (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians freely obey Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. \u201cCome,\u201d he beckons, \u201cfollow me.\u201d Being a Christian requires more than intellectual or moral agreement with Christian teachings. Christ asks for our love and loyalty. Following him requires conversion, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65820\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,162,158,419,414,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-ecumenical-relations","category-evangelicals","category-roman-catholic-other-churches","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65823,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions\/65823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}