{"id":420,"date":"2004-11-04T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=420"},"modified":"2004-11-04T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T09:03:00","slug":"what_are_we_looking_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"What are we looking for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, what are we looking for as Americans? Honestly, what are Evangelical Christians looking for? Honestly, what are liberal Christians looking for? What do we all want?<br \/>\n&#8220;Many of us who call ourselves Christian long to be what we call ourselves, but we cannot see how to do it, granted our culture&#8217;s basic assumptions about what it means to be a human being. If we assume with our culture that the goal of human life is individual self-development, how does this goal leave space for love that might thwart that development? How does the need for assertiveness in a world that despises the weak fit with the Christ who &#8216;did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant&#8221; (Phil. 2:6-7)? How does an ethos of productivity fit with the image of the cross? We suspect that our culture&#8217;s assumptions about human life may be wrong but it is hard to see what alternatives we have.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Roberta Bondi, To Love as God Loves<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, what are we looking for as Americans? Honestly, what are Evangelical Christians looking for? Honestly, what are liberal Christians looking for? What do we all want? &#8220;Many of us who call ourselves Christian long to be what we call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}