{"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&nbsp;Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Galli has a neat little editorial in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/\">Christiantiy Today<\/a> talking about<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2002\/008\/26.58.html\">when imitating Christ is superficial theology<\/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 sterling example of good intentions gone&nbsp;loopy.<\/p>\n<p>While I have to concede his basic point (what would Jesus eat?????), I think he dismisses the concept too quickly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/\">Dallas Willard<\/a> and John Ortberg (who doesn\u2019t seem to have a website) do marvelous jobs of demonstrating how it is possible to imitate Christ in a thoughtful, productive manner. In fact, I highly recommend Dallas Willard\u2019s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/books\/reviews\/reviewspirt.asp\">The Spirit of the Disciplines<\/a> as a life-changing guide to the imitation of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Galli has a neat little editorial in Christiantiy Today talking about when imitating Christ is superficial theology, using the book What Would Jesus Eat? as an sterling example of good intentions gone&nbsp;loopy. While I have to concede his basic point (what would Jesus eat?????), I think he dismisses the concept too quickly. Dallas Willard \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/07\/23\/when-imitating-christ-is-a-bad-idea\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhen Imitating Christ Is a Bad&nbsp;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_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":[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}]}}