{"id":7610,"date":"2022-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-christian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:03","slug":"the-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the value of the lively words diminished by our ignorance of their source? Who said: \u201cmeeting a Christian human being is an unparalleled vision\u201d? I tried to find out. I did not succeed. People are their own words. Are these words testimony or encouragement? I think they are both testimony and encouragement. Encouraging awareness of the Truth is not created out of nothing. These are words about \u201cthem that love our Lord Jesus Christ with a love incorruptible\u201d (Ephesians 6:24). These words do not prompt me to ask: where are they? They never ceased to exist; rather, they prompt me to ask myself: why not be one of them? You are a Christian human being, this is not a formal distinction from any other human being, but rather a project of renewal on earth, God\u2019s project with Man, a revelation that Man is for Truth, for openness, for service, for friendliness, for peace, for joy, for a presence that exudes wonder, and always opens life to the glimpses of grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the value of the lively words diminished by our ignorance of their source? Who said: \u201cmeeting a Christian human being is an unparalleled vision\u201d? I tried to find out. I did not succeed. People are their own words. Are these words testimony or encouragement? I think they are both testimony and encouragement. Encouraging awareness ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1597,1357,2804,1271,1536],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-identity","tag-christian-witness","tag-love-of-christ","tag-orthodox-spirituality","tag-spiritual-renewal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7896,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}