{"id":929,"date":"2003-11-18T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/11\/18\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-christian\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:59:59","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/11\/18\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-christian","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean To Be A Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow Chi Alphan (Lynette, if you must know) asked me to recommend some online explanations of Christianity that she could forward to a friend who is interested.<\/p>\n<p>There are a ton out there, but here are some that I really like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powertochange.com\/\">Power to Change<\/a> is probably my favorite. It eschews over-the-top flash animation and focuses on the stories of changed lives.<\/p>\n<p>The next three are all variants on a theme\u2013make the gospel look cool through use of snazzy flash and soundtrack. They are actually quite cool. To each their&nbsp;own:<br>\n1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotlife.org\/\">Got Life?<\/a>: a play on the \u201cGot Milk?\u201d campaign.<br>\n2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuzupgod.com\/\">Wuzup God?<\/a>: a youthy variant of the billboards asking questions. It\u2019s not quite as clear as I would like it to be, but it\u2019s still&nbsp;nice.<br>\n3) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekristo.com\/\">The Kristo<\/a>: very cool, but it annoys me that I can\u2019t skip the intro to get to the interactive part nor can I pause it (if something cool comes on tv or I get a phone call then the inability to pause becomes a real&nbsp;drag).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithcards.org\/\">Faith Cards<\/a>: this is an e\u2011vangelistic twist on the widespread electronic birthday and holiday cards out there. I almost never open them myself, but some people love them. If that describes your friend (which it almost certainly does if this is a friend who forwards you cute stories), they might appreciate getting one of&nbsp;these.<\/p>\n<p>If you have one that you really like, post it in a comment. If I like it too, I\u2019ll update the post and include it in the main&nbsp;text!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow Chi Alphan (Lynette, if you must know) asked me to recommend some online explanations of Christianity that she could forward to a friend who is interested. There are a ton out there, but here are some that I really like: Power to Change is probably my favorite. It eschews over-the-top flash animation and \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/11\/18\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-christian\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhat Does It Mean To Be A Christian?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}