{"id":16745,"date":"2026-07-26T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16745"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:23:17","slug":"its-about-truly-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16745","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s about truly living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following Christ is not about just avoiding sin, or being told a big list of what you cannot do. It&#8217;s about following a way that lets us embrace true life. Life as we are meant to live. A life of true joy and fulfillment that all the money, politics, fame, possessions, and jobs here cannot give. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is most especially true on how we should live with each other. To love our neighbors even if they do not love us. To share what we have. To help the poor, the orphan, the needy who sit outside our door so everyone has what they need. To ask for forgiveness when we have hurt others. To forgive those who have hurt us so we are not trapped in lives of hate, bitterness, and revenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is nothing short of becoming Christ again on earth for one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Christ is not about just avoiding sin, or being told a big list of what you cannot do. It&#8217;s about following a way that lets us embrace true life. Life as we are meant to live. A life of true joy and fulfillment that all the money, politics, fame, possessions, and jobs here cannot give. It is most especially true on how we should live with each other. To love our neighbors even if they do not love us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16745\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4m5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16746,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions\/16746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}