{"id":5580,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/getting-in-shape\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","slug":"getting-in-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/getting-in-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting In Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in 1 Corinthians series.<\/p>\n<p>  Comparison of the Christian life with a race.<\/p>\n<p>  1. Popularity of athletics.<br \/>\n  2. Sports as a false religion.<br \/>\n       a. &#8220;Christian&#8221; over-emphasis.<br \/>\n       b. Sports as an image of Christianity.<br \/>\n  3. Sports as discipline.<br \/>\n       a. Goal needed.<br \/>\n       b. Application to Christian life.<br \/>\n            Bible reading, prayer, personal holiness.<br \/>\n  4. The prize of salvation.<br \/>\n       a. Danger of disqualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in 1 Corinthians series. Comparison of the Christian life with a race. 1. Popularity of athletics. 2. Sports as a false religion. a. &#8220;Christian&#8221; over-emphasis. b. Sports as an image of Christianity. 3. Sports as discipline. a. Goal needed. b. Application to Christian life. Bible reading, prayer, personal holiness. 4. The prize of salvation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2943,1508,926,140,2945,2944,2241,2940,2941,176,119,2942],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}