{"id":1781,"date":"2015-01-11T21:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2015-01-11T21:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:59:52","slug":"oh-it-is-wonderful-to-be-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2015\/01\/11\/oh-it-is-wonderful-to-be-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Life has purpose now it never had before.
\nThere is meaning to each day and even more;
\nFor a joy and peace I can’t explain is mine,
\nSince I found new life in Christ, my Lord divine.<\/p>\n

Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian;<\/strong>
\n Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child!<\/strong>
\n Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven;<\/strong>
\n Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can go directly to the Lord in prayer.
\nHe has told me I may boldly enter there,
\nAnd He listens as His promises I plead.
\nI find mercy there and grace for ev’ry need.<\/p>\n

Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian;<\/strong>
\n Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child!<\/strong>
\n Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven;<\/strong>
\n Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the hope of heaven’s glories thrills me so,
\nWhere I’ll live with Christ forevermore, I know.
\nThat is why the things of earth I loosely hold;
\nI’ve eternal riches, better far than gold.<\/p>\n

Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian;<\/strong>
\n Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child!<\/strong>
\n Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven;<\/strong>
\n Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled!<\/strong><\/p>\n

(John W. Peterson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian Life has purpose now it never had before. There is meaning to each day and even more; For a joy and peace I can’t explain is mine, Since I found new life in Christ, my Lord divine. Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian; Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child! Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven; Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled! I can go directly to the Lord in prayer. He has told me I may boldly enter there, And He listens as His promises I plead. I find mercy there and grace for ev’ry need. Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian; Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child! Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven; Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled! And the hope of heaven’s glories thrills me so, Where I’ll live with Christ forevermore, I know. That is why the things of earth I loosely hold; I’ve eternal riches, better far than gold. Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian; Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child! Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven; Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled! (John W. Peterson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,45,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-praise","category-salvation","category-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-sJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}