{"id":2179,"date":"2025-05-13T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:44:34","slug":"resurrection-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rts.edu\/resources\/resurrection-calling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Something<\/a>\u00a0I wrote for the RTS newsletter,\u00a0<em>Mind and Heart,<\/em>\u00a0about the centrality of the resurrection to our Christian comfort and hope in lif<\/span>e:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Several years ago, I participated in an apologetic discussion at RTS Washington that was held during Easter week. My responsibility was to address the issue of the truth of the resurrection. The audience consisted mostly of believers, some harboring private and not-so-private doubts, a few avowed atheists, and at least two curious Muslims. The conversation began as one might expect, with questions about the reliability of scripture, the plausibility of miracles, and the role of faith in how Christians approach such topics. However, it didn\u2019t take long for the discussion to move more broadly afield. What started off as a conversation about the truth of Christ\u2019s resurrection developed into a conversation about the impact of the resurrection on the life of the church. Afterward, one of my Muslim friends who was there commented, \u201cI truly had no idea how central the resurrection of Christ is to your beliefs. This is not a small thing, this is the whole thing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wasn\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/rts.edu\/resources\/resurrection-calling\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something\u00a0I wrote for the RTS newsletter,\u00a0Mind and Heart,\u00a0about the centrality of the resurrection to our Christian comfort and hope in life: Several years \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=2179\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[5,8,229,32,70],"tags":[256,94,114,116,257],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-biblical-theology","category-calling","category-gospel","category-spiritual-formation","tag-christian-living","tag-christianity","tag-gospel","tag-jesus","tag-resurrection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/qtq80-FkWmjD.jpeg?fit=1917%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}