{"id":8669,"date":"2020-08-09T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2020-08-09T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T12:57:50","slug":"fr-seraphim-rose-on-true-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8669","title":{"rendered":"Fr Seraphim Rose+ on True Christianity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ht6s\" data-offset-key=\"9gfm3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9gfm3-0-0\">\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ht6s\" data-offset-key=\"9gfm3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9gfm3-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ht6s\" data-offset-key=\"c702c-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c702c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c702c-0-0\">&#8216;Never ask: &#8216;Who is he?&#8217; Rather say: &#8216;He is no stranger; he is my brother. He is the Church of Christ just as I am.&#8221;&#8216;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ht6s\" data-offset-key=\"cnu95-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cnu95-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cnu95-0-0\">With such a call in our hearts, let us begin really to belong to the Church of Christ, the Orthodox Church. Outward membership is not enough; something must move within us that makes us different from the world around us, even if that world calls itself &#8220;Christian&#8221; and even &#8220;Orthodox.&#8221; Let us keep and nourish those qualities of the true Orthodox world-view which I mentioned earlier: a living, normal attitude, loving and forgiving, not self-centered, preserving our innocence and unworldliness even with a full and humble awareness of our own sinfulness and the power of the worldly temptations around us. If we truly live this Orthodox world-view, our Faith will survive the shocks ahead of us and be a source of inspiration and salvation for those who will still be seeking Christ even amidst the shipwreck of humanity which has already begun today.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ht6s\" data-offset-key=\"6sqnk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6sqnk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6sqnk-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;The Orthodox Word&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"6sqnk-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8670\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mount-athos-sunrise-roy-pedersen-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mount-athos-sunrise-roy-pedersen-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mount-athos-sunrise-roy-pedersen-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mount-athos-sunrise-roy-pedersen-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mount-athos-sunrise-roy-pedersen-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ht6s\" data-offset-key=\"81hpo-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Never ask: &#8216;Who is he?&#8217; Rather say: &#8216;He is no stranger; he is my brother. He is the Church of Christ just as I am.&#8221;&#8216; With such a call in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}