{"id":6274,"date":"2017-10-22T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T11:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=6274"},"modified":"2017-10-24T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:42:26","slug":"set-free-from-religion","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/set-free-from-religion","title":{"rendered":"Set Free from Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all of God\u2019s creatures, only humanity seeks answers to questions like: \u201cWho am I? What is my purpose? Where do I fit in? Where do I belong?\u201d We have a deep-seated need for identity and relationship. We want to know and be known. And we ask questions about our future, like: \u201cWhat is my destiny? What happens when I die? Is there life after death?\u201d Some have said that religion is our attempt to answer these kinds of questions.<\/p>\n<p>In the apostle Paul\u2019s letter to the churches of Galatia, he reminded them that they had been set free from man-made religion through faith in Christ. We can be set free from man-made religion by living according to faith in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6181,"template":"","tags":[2019,2111],"series":[2503],"scripture-book":[1315],"scripture-chapter":[1337],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-6274","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exposition","tag-religion-2","series-set-free","scripture-book-galatians","scripture-chapter-1337","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/6274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}