{"id":1310,"date":"2011-03-15T06:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2011-04-22T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T03:26:10","slug":"the-body-of-christ-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/the-body-of-christ-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The body of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4668\" title=\"birdmouse\" src=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse.jpg 600w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse-280x192.jpg 280w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse-90x61.jpg 90w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birdmouse-582x400.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a>Being  a Christian has advantages. The big one for me is the community that  happens as Christians gather. &#8220;One another&#8221; life happens. We begin to  care for one another, love one another, pray for one another, help one  another and on the list goes.<\/p>\n<p>Community happens. Love is demonstrated.  Life together happens. Caring for others becomes important. I can&#8217;t  imagine how hard it would be to live a solitary life without a community  to care for you, but many do. Sadly, they are missing out on one of the  great blessings of the body of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>As I near the last third of my  life, I find that the church family, the community of faith called  Christians, is vital to me. I&#8217;m part of something bigger than myself,  something that bridges centuries and goes forward into eternity. I&#8217;m  part of a family I get to spend eternity with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Christian has advantages. The big one for me is the community that happens as Christians gather. &#8220;One another&#8221; life happens. We begin to care for one another, love one another, pray for one another, help one another and on the list goes. Community happens. Love is demonstrated. Life together happens. Caring for others &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/the-body-of-christ-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The body of Christ&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[507,509,511,510,12,72,52,508,40,5,506],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","category-mike","tag-being-a-christian","tag-blessings","tag-bridges","tag-centuries","tag-christian","tag-christians","tag-church-family","tag-eternity","tag-faith","tag-love","tag-solitary-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}