{"id":244,"date":"2021-01-19T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=244"},"modified":"2021-02-21T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T21:02:00","slug":"livin-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"livin\u2019 the life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>The Christian life is not about gathering knowledge, but applying it in our lives.&nbsp;<strong>Sometimes we need a nudge or two \u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In my last article I sounded the alarm for the Church, something had to change for Christians to be able to deal with the growing madness within Western Culture, that has resulted in a restrictive, controlled environment, fuelled by Cultural Marxism and typified by \u2018political correctness\u2019 and all of its offshoots. In short, we need to \u2026 live the life. How?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>In my previous book,&nbsp;<strong>Livin\u2019 the Life<\/strong>, we learned how to do so by living in &#8230;the Life. We looked at the need not just to learn about Jesus, but to model him. We ended up with&nbsp;<strong>three key principles, so often hidden in plain sight<\/strong>, but crucial for a balanced faith walk. These were: honouring God, reflecting Jesus and engaging with the Holy Spirit. Here\u2019s a bit of an unpacking:<\/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>The Christian life is not about gathering knowledge, but applying it in our lives.&nbsp;Sometimes we need a nudge or two \u2026 In my last article [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}