{"id":4585,"date":"2024-08-22T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2024-08-22T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:33:53","slug":"sermon-8-18-2024-what-is-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 8\/18\/2024: &#8220;What Is A Person?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png 168w, https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-102x150.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ross-240818-What-is-a-person.mp3\">What Is A Person?<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The bottom line is that God wants a personal relationship with His people. He wants that personal relationship to be normal, ordinary, common.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Everything we need as human beings will come out of that personal relationship with Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But if we focus of miracles and cures and gifts, we don\u2019t get the personal relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So what is a personal relationship? To understand this we need to understand what a person is.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And in one sense it sounds like a silly question to ask, because everyone\u2014persons\u2014should already know. But it\u2019s not.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In fact, the definition of person may be the most serious issue we currently face. How so?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The misunderstanding of \u201cperson\u201d is causing two serious social problems right now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(This is just a teaser. If you want to know more, listen to the sermon.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday morning messages are available on the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\">www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unwanted pregnancy is, for the most part, the result of irresponsible sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}