{"id":361,"date":"2008-05-30T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/swallow-your-pride\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T03:49:07","slug":"swallow-your-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/swallow-your-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Swallow your pride?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I might flippantly speak of my favourite football team with <span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">pride<\/span>, C.S. Lewis was a little more serious when it came to speaking about it.<\/p>\n<p>He has argued that pride is a\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;spiritual cancer,&#8221; &#8220;the complete anti-God state of mind,&#8221; and &#8220;the chief cause of misery in every nation and in every family since the world began.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For insight into his thinking, Christianity 9 to 5 has provided his chapter on\u00c2\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epiphanyresources.com\/9to5\/articles\/pride.htm\">&#8220;The Great Sin&#8221; f<\/a>rom Mere Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I might flippantly speak of my favourite football team with pride, C.S. Lewis was a little more serious when it came to speaking about it. He has argued that pride is a\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;spiritual cancer,&#8221; &#8220;the complete anti-God state of mind,&#8221; and &#8220;the chief cause of misery in every nation and in every family since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}