{"id":962,"date":"2002-07-23T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-24T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/07\/23\/when-imitating-christ-is-a-bad-idea\/"},"modified":"2002-07-23T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-24T00:50:00","slug":"when-imitating-christ-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/07\/23\/when-imitating-christ-is-a-bad-idea","title":{"rendered":"When Imitating Christ Is a Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Gal\u00adli has a neat lit\u00adtle edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/\">Chris\u00adtiantiy Today<\/a> talk\u00ading about<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2002\/008\/26.58.html\">when imi\u00adtat\u00ading Christ is super\u00adfi\u00adcial the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/a>, using the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0785265678\/qid=1027467895\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/102-4611553-2604936\">What Would Jesus Eat?<\/a> as an ster\u00adling exam\u00adple of good inten\u00adtions gone loopy.<\/p>\n<p>While I have to con\u00adcede his basic point (what would Jesus eat?????), I think he dis\u00admiss\u00ades the con\u00adcept too quick\u00adly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/\">Dal\u00adlas Willard<\/a> and John Ort\u00adberg (who does\u00adn\u2019t seem to have a web\u00adsite) do mar\u00advelous jobs of demon\u00adstrat\u00ading how it is pos\u00adsi\u00adble to imi\u00adtate Christ in a thought\u00adful, pro\u00adduc\u00adtive man\u00adner. In fact, I high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend Dal\u00adlas Willard\u2019s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/books\/reviews\/reviewspirt.asp\">The Spir\u00adit of the Dis\u00adci\u00adplines<\/a> as a life-chang\u00ading guide to the imi\u00adta\u00adtion of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Gal\u00adli has a neat lit\u00adtle edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal in Chris\u00adtiantiy Today talk\u00ading about when imi\u00adtat\u00ading Christ is super\u00adfi\u00adcial the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, using the book What Would Jesus Eat? as an ster\u00adling exam\u00adple of good inten\u00adtions gone loopy. While I have to con\u00adcede his basic point (what would Jesus eat?????), I think he dis\u00admiss\u00ades the con\u00adcept too quick\u00adly. Dal\u00adlas \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/07\/23\/when-imitating-christ-is-a-bad-idea\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhen Imi\u00adtat\u00ading Christ Is a Bad Idea\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}