{"id":302,"date":"2018-01-25T03:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.sjlagrange.com\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=302"},"modified":"2018-01-25T04:13:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T04:13:15","slug":"about-the-christian-life","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/faq\/about-the-christian-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the Christian Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As new creations in Christ, Christians are free to live for Christ in their various callings (church, family, work, society).\u00a0 The life of a Christian is one of struggle, battling the impulses of the sinful flesh, the lures of the fallen world and the attacks of the devil through the power of God\u2019s Word and the Holy Spirit alone.\u00a0 Each day is a day of repentance, where the Christian confesses their sinfulness, receives full and free forgiveness in Jesus Christ, and lives out their faith in loving acts of service to others.\u00a0 The Christian life is marked with countless opportunities to share the love of God in Jesus Christ through their words and their actions.\u00a0 These good works are not meant to complete salvation or earn merit before God, but a joy-filled, Spirit-led response to God\u2019s grace and mercy in Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Mark 10:42-45; Romans 7:7-25; Romans 12:1-2; Colossians 3:16-17; Galatians 6:10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"template":"","faq_groups":[5],"class_list":["post-302","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq-group-what-we-believe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sjlagrange.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_groups?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}