{"id":530,"date":"2012-05-07T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-05-07T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:48:36","slug":"cooperating-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Cooperating with God&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;Most of us turned to Christ when we realized<\/strong> there was a difference between Christianity as a religion and Christianity as a relationship,&#8221; writes Ken Gire. &#8220;Sometime after entering into that relationship with Christ, we realized something else. That there is a difference between a personal relationship with Christ and an intimate one.&#8221; You must cooperate with God&#8217;s leading and direction in your life, and make the necessary investments to position yourself for his ongoing work in your life, in order to enhance \u00a0his creative activity. While spirituality consist of being, not doing, there are things to <\/em>do<em> that will help you <\/em>be<em>!<\/em> ~James Emery White in\u00a0<em>A Traveler&#8217;s Guide to the Kingdom:Journeying through the Christian Life<\/em>, p. 48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most of us turned to Christ when we realized there was a difference between Christianity as a religion and Christianity as a relationship,&#8221; writes Ken Gire. &#8220;Sometime after entering into that relationship with Christ, we realized something else. That there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=530\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-8y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}