{"id":1184,"date":"2013-02-02T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/?page_id=1184"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:56:06","slug":"theological-aspects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/what-we-believe-in-2\/theological-aspects\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church is the Body of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In several letters<\/strong>, Paul compares the church with a body that has many different members. &laquo;So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.&raquo; Romans 12:5. We place great emphasis upon the church&#8217;s functioning as a body. Therefore great freedom for mutual edification is granted in our meetings, and nearly everyone participates in the edification with a message, a testimony, a prayer or a song. <\/p>\n<p><strong>We believe that<\/strong> someone who walks in the &laquo;light of the scriptures&raquo; makes up the Body of Christ, irrespective of his era, location, culture or tradition. These are people who lead a &laquo;crucified life&raquo; with Christ as it is written quite clearly in Galatians 5:24. Such persons belong to Christ and His Body. That means that the person does not live according to his own will but according to the will of God. He denies the evil that he is tempted to do, and he does the good in all that he does. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In our fellowship<\/strong> there are no paid leaders or preachers, and all of the contributions for the activity in the church are voluntary and, for the most part, anonymous. We do not pactice &laquo;tithing&raquo; (as it is often done in other religious groups). Everything is on a voluntary basis.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/youth1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"youth\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/youth1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/youth1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In several letters, Paul compares the church with a body that has many different members. &laquo;So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.&raquo; Romans 12:5. We place great emphasis upon the church&#8217;s functioning as a body. Therefore great freedom for mutual edification is granted in our meetings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1138,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"no","enabled_languages":["de","no","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1184\/revisions\/2558"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.norweger.at\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}