{"id":254,"date":"2011-05-18T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2011-05-18T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:11:07","slug":"can-religious-people-cause-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Religion or Relationship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s kind of become a trend to contrast <em>religion <\/em>with <em>relationship <\/em>in churches.<\/strong> Religion is generally defined by the tendency to live by a list of rules, whereas relationship is just what it sounds like &#8212; to live in relationship with God through Christ.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking through the years of ministry I&#8217;ve experienced and realized that over and over again, when we are being <em>religious<\/em>, we are generally fruitless. And when we operate out of a relationship based in grace, we see fruit. It is my opinion that the fruit we are seeing at Curwensville Alliance is partially because we&#8217;ve abandoned dead religious tradition in favor of healthy pursuit of God. If you want to hear a good talk on this, there&#8217;s one at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/j61HMD\">Willowcreek called <em>Go Outside<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of become a trend to contrast religion with relationship in churches. Religion is generally defined by the tendency to live by a list of rules, whereas relationship is just what it sounds like &#8212; to live in relationship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=254\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-46","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}