{"id":7045,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/interesting-approaches-to-becoming-holy\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:32","slug":"interesting-approaches-to-becoming-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/interesting-approaches-to-becoming-holy\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Approaches To Becoming Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the ages, believers have come up with some interesting approaches to becoming holy.<\/p>\n<p>1. First, there was Asceticism.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Institutional Church:  The Dendrites lived in trees, basing the practice on a verse in James about keeping oneself unspotted from the world.  Self-flagellation and contemplation were popular at times.<\/p>\n<p>3. Performance or the Spirit&#8217;s Power? \u2014 The New Testament conveys this message:  No excess, but no unnecessary abstinence, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the ages, believers have come up with some interesting approaches to becoming holy. 1. First, there was Asceticism. 2. The Institutional Church: The Dendrites lived in trees, basing the practice on a verse in James about keeping oneself unspotted from the world. Self-flagellation and contemplation were popular at times. 3. Performance or the Spirit&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1873,18,4650,140,704,2330,2438,4904,6,22,1637],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045"}],"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=7045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}