{"id":109,"date":"2009-04-26T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/whats-in-an-adjective-or-my-identity-crisis\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:06:00","slug":"whats-in-an-adjective-or-my-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/whats-in-an-adjective-or-my-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in an adjective? or My Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is the last time I do an energy drink late in the afternoon. I go to bed thinking about this question with regards to the term Christian or sometimes people in general. What does it mean to be an Evangelical Christian as opposed to a Born-again Christian or simple a Christian? What does it mean to be a Baptist or Lutheran or CMA or Methodist? Am I a liberal or conservative? Do I lean right or left or am I a centrist? I oppose abortion but am uncertain about stem cell research. I think global warming is real but that government imposes itself into to many areas of our life or society. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am a Christ-follower, someone who loves God with all his heart, mind, soul, and strength. I try to love others with an equal passion. I am compelled to minister to those in our society who do not have a voice due to their life circumstances. I am prepared to tell others of the hope that I have if I am asked. Finally, as I am out doing life, I come along side others to help them become more like Christ, to live transformed life through the power of the Holy Spirit and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Am I a liberal or conservative (political labels), Evangelical or Main Line or Religious Right (religious labels), Baptist, CMA, Lutheran (denominational labels)? I don&#8217;t think that I wan to have an adjective added to a description of who I am in Christ, rather I simply want to be describe as on who follows the teachings of Jesus and live a life that brings glory and honor to God.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is the last time I do an energy drink late in the afternoon. I go to bed thinking about this question with regards to the term Christian or sometimes people in general. What does it mean to be an Evangelical Christian as opposed to a Born-again Christian or simple a Christian? What &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/whats-in-an-adjective-or-my-identity-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s in an adjective? or My Identity Crisis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-1L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}