{"id":48,"date":"2002-05-22T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T11:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-03-28T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T13:05:25","slug":"bride-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/experience\/bride-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking a lot (well, some) about this whole thing about <strong>being the bride of Christ<\/strong>. Have heard so many teachings and read so many books about individually being the bride of Christ. But that is not what the bible really teaches (let me be doctrinal for a moment). <\/p>\n<p>It talks more about how as a body of believers we are his bride. This is totally different from our individualistic mindsets. Lots of questions in my head: how can we as a corporate body love Christ, walk (run) towards him, cherish him, adore him&#8230;.not many brides, but one &#8211; made up of various parts&#8230;.how he loves his bride&#8230;how very much he loves her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gene Edwards &#8220;The divine romance&#8221; is a real classic teaching this in a deep and poetic way.<br \/>\nIt is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">amazon<\/a>&#8230;(uh&#8230;that\u00b4s pretty unpoetic but helpful info)&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Any thoughts, comments, inspirations&#8230;????<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, concerning inspirations. There is this real cool story by E.M. Forster about these humans who live under the earth and their deepest longing is for inspirations, but they are afraid of meeting real life (people, air, sunshine, country)&#8230;pretty much taps into how I sometimes feel &#8211; the tension between longing for life and inspiration and fear of unknown and uncontrollable situations&#8230;allowing life to happen. The story is called &#8220;The mashine stops&#8221; (from &#8220;The New Collected Short Stories&#8221; probably available at a&#8230;, too..no more advertisment for them!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking a lot (well, some) about this whole thing about being the bride of Christ. Have heard so many teachings and read so many books about individually being the bride of Christ. But that is not what the bible really teaches (let me be doctrinal for a moment). It talks more about how as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}