{"id":6800,"date":"2024-08-17T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2024-08-17T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:10:40","slug":"transition-to-authentic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6800","title":{"rendered":"TRANSITION TO AUTHENTIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That is&#8212;AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANITY !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Despised&#8221;<br>&#8220;Reviled&#8221;<br>&#8220;Hated&#8221;<br>&#8220;Persecuted&#8221;<br>&#8220;Killed&#8221;<br>&#8220;Unfit&#8221;<br>Un-&#8216;fit in&#8217;<br>&#8220;Peculiar&#8221; to say the least<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And those are some of the marks of AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANITY, some of the promises to every follower of Jesus&#8212;direct quotes from His Book.<br>This will become clear as Americans transition from &#8216;comfortable christianity&#8217; to Authentic Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about you ?<br>Do you accept, endorse what the Bible says about the Christian life&#8212;narrow gate to enter, narrow road for life, trouble (with Jesus by your side), &#8220;choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is&#8212;AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANITY ! &#8220;Despised&#8221;&#8220;Reviled&#8221;&#8220;Hated&#8221;&#8220;Persecuted&#8221;&#8220;Killed&#8221;&#8220;Unfit&#8221;Un-&#8216;fit in&#8217;&#8220;Peculiar&#8221; to say the least And those are some of the marks of AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANITY, some of the promises to every follower of Jesus&#8212;direct quotes from His Book.This will become clear as Americans transition from &#8216;comfortable christianity&#8217; to Authentic Christianity. How about you ?Do you accept, endorse what the Bible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}