{"id":5595,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/radical-individualism\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:03","slug":"radical-individualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/radical-individualism\/","title":{"rendered":"RADICAL\n  INDIVIDUALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Body of Christ; Church; Community; Culture; Individualism; Revival<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Romans 12:1\u20138; 1 Corinthians 12:12\u201331; Ephesians 1:22\u201323; 3:21<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life: radical individualism. They concentrate on personal obedience to Christ as if all that matters is \u201cJesus and me,\u201d but in doing so miss the point. For Christianity is not a solitary belief system. Any genuine resurgence of Christianity, as history demonstrates, depends on a reawakening and renewal of that which is the essence of the faith\u2014the people of God, the new society, the body of Christ, which is made manifest in the world\u2014the church.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Chuck Colson, <i>The Body<\/i> (Word, 1992)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Body of Christ; Church; Community; Culture; Individualism; Revival References: Romans 12:1\u20138; 1 Corinthians 12:12\u201331; Ephesians 1:22\u201323; 3:21 Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life: radical individualism. They concentrate on personal obedience to Christ as if all that matters is \u201cJesus and me,\u201d but in doing so miss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/radical-individualism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RADICAL<br \/>\n  INDIVIDUALISM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}