{"id":127,"date":"2004-10-26T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/squeezed-into-the-kingdom\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T02:48:11","slug":"squeezed-into-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/squeezed-into-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeezed into the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicchurch.net\/archives\/2004\/10\/21\/yes-no-maybe\/\">Graham Old<\/a>  was told, \u201cThe vast majority of people decide to become Christians because of a crisis in their lives.&#8221; His initial reaction: that&#8217;s a &#8220;big over-statement&#8221;. I&#8217;m not so sure.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOne commenter opined that the vast majority of people were always Christian and so never needed to change. That attitude is exactly why most of us need a crisis to show us the truth about ourselves. True, most Western believers come from a Christian background, because most Westerners (still) come from a Christian background. <\/p>\n<p>But maybe that very Christian background is what&#8217;s keeping us from seeing ourselves the way God sees us. People become Christians when they repent and believe. Until they see their need to repent, they cannot believe. I&#8217;m quite confident that most people in most churches are not Christians. Growing up with Jesus like a big brother, it takes quite a jolt to understand that Jesus wants to become our husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a conference, Graham Old was told, \u201cThe vast majority of people decide to become Christians because of a crisis in their lives.&#8221; His initial reaction: that&#8217;s a &#8220;big over-statement&#8221;. I&#8217;m not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-cyberspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}