{"id":7203,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/living-dangerously\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:02","slug":"living-dangerously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/living-dangerously\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Dangerously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living dangerously.  That was one of many themes in Brennan Manning\u2019s superb book THE SIGNATURE OF JESUS.  Manning presents a radical alternative to the normal everyday, ho-hum, \u201ccomfort zone\u201d mentality lived out by so many \u201cso-called Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His final statement in the book:<br \/>\n    \u201cThe Signature of Jesus is offered to Christians who want to live by faith and not by mere \u2018religion,\u2019 for those who recognize that many of the burning theological issues in the church today are neither burning nor theological, [for those] who see Christianity neither as a moral code or a belief system but a love affair, who have not forgotten that they are followers of a crucified Christ, who know that following Him means living dangerously, who want to live the gospel without compromise, who have no greater desire than to have His signature written on the pages of their lives.\u201d<br \/>\n__________<\/p>\n<p>Contributed by Dru Ashwell<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #4410]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living dangerously. That was one of many themes in Brennan Manning\u2019s superb book THE SIGNATURE OF JESUS. Manning presents a radical alternative to the normal everyday, ho-hum, \u201ccomfort zone\u201d mentality lived out by so many \u201cso-called Christians.\u201d His final statement in the book: \u201cThe Signature of Jesus is offered to Christians who want to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2434,5082,114,427,2115,2433],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203"}],"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=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}