{"id":1209,"date":"2012-08-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/religious-competition\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:00:00","slug":"religious-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/religious-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"religious competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>This morning I woke up with thoughts regarding the ministry paradigm of \u201ccompetition.\u201d<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Then, the panelists today mentioned that Korea is a \u201creligiously competitive society\u201d; not only within the Christian church (Protestants &amp; Catholics) and between seminaries, but also between the variety of religious expressions within this country.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>My thoughts are that we might consider the move from \u201ccompetition\u201d to \u201ccooperation\u201d as a Christian practice\u2026from \u201cwinning\u201d souls to \u201cserving\u201d souls.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It almost seems like it has turned into a game where the one with the most players and toys wins.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I need to do more research on this topic to see if this was a philosophy practiced by Jesus in his ministry..competition.\u00a0 Do you feel like this is an issue for Christianity?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke up with thoughts regarding the ministry paradigm of \u201ccompetition.\u201d\u00a0 Then, the panelists today mentioned that Korea is a \u201creligiously competitive society\u201d; not only within the Christian church (Protestants &amp; Catholics) and between seminaries, but also between the variety of religious expressions within this country.\u00a0 My thoughts are that we might consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,465,464],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity","tag-interfaith-service","tag-religious-competition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}