{"id":58,"date":"2014-07-10T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:49:24","slug":"something-in-common-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Something In Common &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God cautions us, in II Corinthians 6:14 to be very careful about people with whom we \u201cyoke\u201d ourselves. Although this principle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unequallyyoked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/unequallyyoked.jpg\" alt=\"unequallyyoked\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>should also be applied to our business partnerships and close friendships, it is most critical to give this verse consideration when we are considering marriage.<\/p>\n<p>All my life, I have heard people talk about the concept that \u201copposites attract.\u201d Many people I have met over the years have entered into a serious relationship with and\/or married someone with whom they have little or nothing in common, including their Christian beliefs. This is not God\u2019s plan or desire for us. Marriage is full of challenges. Why add to the challenge by yoking yourself with someone who is not like minded?<\/p>\n<p>In Something in Common \u2013 Part 2, I will continue this thought and commentary. A Christian believer yoking himself or herself with an unbeliever is ignoring God\u2019s clear Word and inviting disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God cautions us, in II Corinthians 6:14 to be very careful about people with whom we \u201cyoke\u201d ourselves. Although this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something In Common &#8211; Part 1<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,10,19],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-and-maintaining-relationships","tag-christian-lifestyle","tag-christian-living","tag-christian-relationship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}