{"id":60066,"date":"2022-10-02T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60066"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:46:25","slug":"an-original-or-mere-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60066","title":{"rendered":"An original or mere copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">In this life, we all tend to grow and conform to the image of our heroes &#8211; those we love and admire. *<b>As believers in Christ, that hero ought to be The Lord Jesus<\/b>*. We are to grow and be conformed to His image (Romans 8:28-29)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>Today, many believers chose, out of immaturity and folly, to allign their lives with their favourite spiritual heroes<\/b>*, and subsequently take on their personality, style, and even language. We become mere copies of men rather than imitators of Christ.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Believing in Jesus is the beginning of the Christian life; growing in Him is the journey, while becoming like Him is the ultimate goal. *<b>Be an original, not a photocopy<\/b>*.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this life, we all tend to grow and conform to the image of our heroes &#8211; those we love and admire. *As believers in Christ, that hero ought to be The Lord Jesus*. We are to grow and be conformed to His image (Romans 8:28-29) *Today, many believers chose, out of immaturity and folly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}