{"id":2232,"date":"2018-03-05T06:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:35:38","slug":"2-incomplete-sentences-of-true-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/2-incomplete-sentences-of-true-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Incomplete Sentences of True Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning as I continue pondering my life and some of the Pressing Big Issues in it, I wonder many things. These seem like the top four: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christ <em>in<\/em> me would respond <em>through<\/em> me by&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>If I wholly lived by obedient faith, my next step would be to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>What commands of Christ are we presently obeying?<\/li>\n<li>Which of His commands are we passing over?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last two shouldn&#8217;t be difficult to answer. I have the Bible as my source book &#8212; it should be easy to build a list of answers.<\/p>\n<p>But the first two&#8230; Should they be any more of a challenge?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the first incomplete sentence should also have the concluding phrases and clauses in the Scriptures, at least generally speaking.<\/p>\n<p>But the second sentence awaiting completion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that perhaps I should also (or first?) be asking myself, <strong>&#8220;How many parts of Galatians 2:20 are true of me?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"passage bible\">I am crucified<br \/>\nwith Christ:<br \/>\nnevertheless I live;<br \/>\nyet not I, but Christ liveth in me:<br \/>\nand the life which I now live in the flesh<br \/>\nI live by the faith<br \/>\nof the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.<\/div>\n<p>And now I wonder if this bullet point goes under the first incomplete sentence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>publishing this blog post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whatever the case, I leave you with a bonus image and two bonus verses (which I read this morning):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lord-your-god-proveth-you.jpg\" alt=\"The Lord your God proveth you.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lord-your-god-proveth-you.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lord-your-god-proveth-you-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lord-your-god-proveth-you-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lord-your-god-proveth-you-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-lord-your-god-proveth-you-668x501.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"passage\"><em class=\"bible\">Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer:<br \/>\npreserve my life from fear of the enemy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"bible\">The righteous shall be glad in the LORD,<br \/>\nand shall trust in him;<br \/>\nand all the upright in heart shall glory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Psalm 64:1,10)<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two bonus questions for searching our hearts and our Christianity<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,46,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-2232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-obedience","9":"tag-way-of-righteousness","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-A0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}