{"id":33,"date":"2006-11-09T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-03-10T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:25:32","slug":"following-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/following-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be an Offering &#8211; Following Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an amazing book entitled, &#8220;The Barbarian Way.&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/erwinmcmanus.com\/\">Erwin McManus<\/a>.\u00a0 In it, he stressed the point that the church has gotten so far away from Jesus and what He really called us to do and how He really called us to live.\u00a0 Jesus calls us to a life where we should &#8220;deny (ourselves) take up (our) cross and follow Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Often I talk about making worship more than just a Sunday morning thing.\u00a0 This video made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitychristian.org\/index.html\">Community Christian<\/a> is a great, slightly humorous look at what it looks like to be a Christ Follower and not a Christian.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bIXDLUUn830\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/following-christ\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an amazing book entitled, &#8220;The Barbarian Way.&#8221; by Erwin McManus.\u00a0 In it, he stressed the point that the church has gotten so far away from Jesus and what He really called us to do and how He really called us to live.\u00a0 Jesus calls us to a life where we should &#8220;deny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offerings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}