{"id":158,"date":"2007-08-07T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/07\/what-makes-a-person-truly-christian\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T11:05:49","slug":"what-makes-a-person-truly-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-person-truly-christian","title":{"rendered":"What makes a person truly &quot;Christian&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Storms joins me this afternoon on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\">The Paul Edwards Program<\/a> to discuss his new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1581349327?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=onthewordradi-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1581349327\">Signs of the Spirit: An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards&#8217;s &#8220;Religious Affections&#8221;<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=onthewordradi-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1581349327\" height=\"1\" style=\"border:medium none;margin:0;\" \/>.<\/em>\u00a0 Jonathan Edwards was an 18th century American theologian and pastor in New England. His preaching is credited with igniting the Great Awakenings of that century. His treatise <em>Religious Affections<\/em> is widely considered the most important and accurate analysis of religious experience ever written. Edwards&#8217; primary concern in that work was to determine, as much as possible, &#8220;what are the distinguishing qualifications of those that are in favor with God, and entitled to his eternal rewards.&#8221; Simply put, he endeavored to identify what constitutes true and authentic spirituality. What makes a person truly &#8216;Christian&#8217;? Are there certain features or characteristics in human thought and behavior that serve as &#8220;signs&#8221; of the saving activity and presence of the Spirit of God? Is it possible for us to know with any degree of certainty whether or not a person who claims to have experienced the saving grace of God is truly born-again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Storms joins me this afternoon on The Paul Edwards Program to discuss his new book, Signs of the Spirit: An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards&#8217;s &#8220;Religious Affections&#8221;.\u00a0 Jonathan Edwards was an 18th century American theologian and pastor in New England. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-person-truly-christian\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}