{"id":45920,"date":"2022-10-01T02:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-impact-of-christianity-on-america-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:05:59","slug":"the-impact-of-christianity-on-america-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-impact-of-christianity-on-america-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Of Christianity On America &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three things that are required in order for Christianity to make a stronger impact on our country:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christians must begin to live more like Jesus (1 John 2:5-6; cf. 1 Peter 2:19-21).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Christian faith should be presented without any adulteration (Acts 20:20; Acts 20:24-27; cf. Gal. 1:6-9; 1 Peter 4:11).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Christians should emphasize love, which is at the heart of the gospel (John 3:16; 1 John 4:7-12).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above suggestions are the key to effective evangelism around the world. As messengers of God, we are to be human mirrors who reflect without distortion a growing likeness to our Lord (Gal. 2:20).<\/p>\n<p>We are never to walk in craftiness (2 Corinthians 4:2), because if our life reflects an image that is spiritually blurred, the truth of saving grace may not be clearly communicated to others (2 Corinthians 4:3-5).<\/p>\n<p>We are also to share the biblical essentials of our faith clearly (1 Corinthians 2:1-2). We must not handle the Word of God deceitfully (2 Corinthians 4:2). And our lives are to be marked by love for God and others (1 John 5:1-2).<\/p>\n<p>Brethren and friends, let us be certain that we reflect a clear image of Jesus likeness, the truth of God, and love (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 4:11-15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three things that are required in order for Christianity to make a stronger impact on our country: Christians must begin to live more like Jesus (1 John 2:5-6; cf. 1 Peter 2:19-21). The Christian faith should be presented without any adulteration (Acts 20:20; Acts 20:24-27; cf. Gal. 1:6-9; 1 Peter 4:11). Christians should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-impact-of-christianity-on-america-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Impact Of Christianity On America &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}