{"id":169,"date":"2021-01-19T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:12:25","slug":"are-you-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>How closely do we follow our Master rather than being an embarrassment to him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Gary Clayton introduces us to Beryl \u2013 not the precious stone of Revelation 21:20 or the mineral with the chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6, but an old work colleague, and the question she poses to true believers\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>When I was a young Christian, before working as Copywriter and Editor at<strong>&nbsp;MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship)<\/strong>, the first job I had was at a Christian film distribution company. Every day, people came to pick up films. I met some of the choicest Christians you can imagine \u2013 and some whose understanding of grace (or Scripture) was appalling!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How closely do we follow our Master rather than being an embarrassment to him? Gary Clayton introduces us to Beryl \u2013 not the precious stone [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}