{"id":362,"date":"2007-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html"},"modified":"2007-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"the-gift-of-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adapted from ‘The Journey: How to Live By Faith in an Uncertain World’ by Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 2006). Used by Permission.<\/em>
\nGod has given us to one another. One of the main tools God uses to shape us and make us more like Christ is our fellowship with other Christians. In face, unless we have active contact with other believers our spiritual lives will be stunted<\/i>. The Bible says, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another” (Proverbs 27:17).
\nAre you connected to other people? If so, write a series of notes to some of them, thanking them for the ways they’ve “sharpened” you. If not, develop a plan for becoming connected: attending church, joining a Bible study, starting a prayer group, etc. Write about the ways in which you can begin to fellowship more with other believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adapted from ‘The Journey: How to Live By Faith in an Uncertain World’ by Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 2006). Used by Permission. God has given us to one another. One of the main tools God uses to shape us and make us more like Christ is our fellowship with other Christians. In face, unless…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Gift of Each Other - Content Feeds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Gift of Each Other - Content Feeds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adapted from ‘The Journey: How to Live By Faith in an Uncertain World’ by Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 2006). Used by Permission. God has given us to one another. One of the main tools God uses to shape us and make us more like Christ is our fellowship with other Christians. In face, unless…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Content Feeds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-14T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jana Melpolder\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Gift of Each Other - Content Feeds","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Gift of Each Other - Content Feeds","og_description":"Adapted from ‘The Journey: How to Live By Faith in an Uncertain World’ by Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 2006). Used by Permission. God has given us to one another. One of the main tools God uses to shape us and make us more like Christ is our fellowship with other Christians. In face, unless…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html","og_site_name":"Content Feeds","article_published_time":"2007-11-14T00:00:00+00:00","author":"Jana Melpolder","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html","name":"The Gift of Each Other - Content Feeds","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-11-14T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2007-11-14T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/#\/schema\/person\/ed4df2f4c08a1cb26b9e488226ab83af"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/11\/the-gift-of-each-other.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Gift of Each Other"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/","name":"Content Feeds","description":"Beliefnet Content Feeds","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/#\/schema\/person\/ed4df2f4c08a1cb26b9e488226ab83af","name":"Jana Melpolder","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/7b0\/7b06445eb7242dad0695efa8bc034da4x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/7b0\/7b06445eb7242dad0695efa8bc034da4x96.jpg","caption":"Jana Melpolder"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/author\/jmelpolder"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}