{"id":175,"date":"2014-12-31T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T02:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=175"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:55:19","slug":"are-you-comfortable-in-your-christian-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Are you comfortable in your Christian skin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of Christians are very comfortable in their faith, what I refer to as their &#8220;Christian skin.&#8221;\u00a0 Maybe that&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 Maybe they are where God wants them to be.\u00a0 And, I am not here to judge them, and hopefully they don&#8217;t feel like I am.\u00a0 A lot of people who profess to be Christians appear not to give much thought to their faith.\u00a0 I am more concerned about this category of people because maybe they should.\u00a0 I think that God speaks to all of us where we are.\u00a0 And, clearly we are all not in the same place.\u00a0 I am not comfortable in my Christian skin because I believe that I hear God&#8217;s voice, His still small voice, telling me that I am missing the mark.\u00a0 I am concerned about those who do not appear to give their faith much thought, whether they can hear God&#8217;s voice, or recognize His voice when He speaks to them.\u00a0 When\u00a0I stand before the Lord, I hope that He&#8217;ll say to me,\u00a0&#8220;Well done, my good and faithful servant,&#8221; because I am attuned to His voice, instead of saying &#8220;Depart from me, you evil worker.&#8221;\u00a0 Which one would you rather hear?\u00a0 Are you comfortable in your Christian skin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of Christians are very comfortable in their faith, what I refer to as their &#8220;Christian skin.&#8221;\u00a0 Maybe that&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 Maybe they are where God wants them to be.\u00a0 And, I am not here to judge them, and hopefully they don&#8217;t feel like I am.\u00a0 A lot of people who profess to be Christians&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=175\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}