{"id":486,"date":"2013-01-04T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-01-04T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T22:22:46","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-live-a-merged-life-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-a-merged-life-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to live a merged life with God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for January 11, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The narcissist is completely self-referential and protects his identity from influence of others.\u00a0 How is a loving relationship established with God?\u00a0 What does it mean to &#8220;die to self&#8221; in true relationship?\u00a0 How do we &#8220;live for Christ&#8221; without denying personal identity (victimhood) or denying Him (compartmentalization)? Describe a relationship of merged lives in terms of control, decision making, sacrifice, and free will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for January 11, 2013. The narcissist is completely self-referential and protects his identity from influence of others.\u00a0 How is a loving relationship established with God?\u00a0 What does it mean to &#8220;die to self&#8221; in true relationship?\u00a0 How do we &#8220;live for Christ&#8221; without denying personal identity (victimhood) or denying Him (compartmentalization)? Describe a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}