{"id":2929,"date":"2020-04-03T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:32:52","slug":"the-church-sanctifies-the-world-she-does-not-espouse-life-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-church-sanctifies-the-world-she-does-not-espouse-life-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church Sanctifies the World, She Does Not Espouse Life of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/TheVoiceBlog\/Church_Sanctifies_World_01_1100x665.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Church_Sanctifies_World_01_800x484.jpg\" alt=\"The purpose of the Church is to sanctify the world, to have the world enter the life of the Church, not to have the Church espouse the life of the world.\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Church_Sanctifies_World_01_800x484.jpg 800w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Church_Sanctifies_World_01_800x484-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Church_Sanctifies_World_01_800x484-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe purpose of the Church is to sanctify the world, to have the world enter the life of the Church, not to have the Church espouse the life of the world.\u201d  ~ Elder Athanasios Mitilianos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of the Church is to sanctify the world, to have the world enter the life of the Church, not to have the Church espouse the life of the world.\u201d ~ Elder Athanasios Mitilianos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,26,21,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-orthodox-christianity","category-orthodox-church","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}