{"id":249,"date":"2009-08-16T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2014-07-06T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:16:02","slug":"lifestyle-verses-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle verses relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life style verses relationship.<br \/>\nMost professing Christians I know, their Christianity is a life style and they have never been taught that to live a true Christian life is a relationship.<br \/>\nWhat is the difference?<br \/>\nA life style is having set programs, living by laws, living a routine and little or no spontaneousness.<br \/>\nLiving in relationship, is a person who is spontaneous, moving as directed by the voice of Jesus John 10:27.<br \/>\nLast week a teenager threw a bottle over a hedge that landed on the road right beside my bike and smashed.<br \/>\nI was blessed it missed me and the shattered bottle did not cut the bike tyres.<br \/>\nMy first thought was that the person should be punished, but how, could I even find him. [I know it was a he because other kids yelled out that he would be in trouble]<br \/>\nMy next thought was that the greatest punishment one could meet out would be to forgive him, take all judgment off him and bless him.<br \/>\nThat I did, I was immediately free and knew that person sooner or later will come under great conviction.<\/p>\n<p>As we know that was then and cannot be turned into law, every situation requires a now direction, that way one walks in LIFE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life style verses relationship. Most professing Christians I know, their Christianity is a life style and they have never been taught that to live a true Christian life is a relationship. What is the difference? A life style is having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}