{"id":4627,"date":"2025-04-08T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:51:20","slug":"focusing-on-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/focusing-on-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"788\" data-id=\"4643\" src=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/One-Theme-800x788.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4643\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"788\" data-id=\"4642\" src=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/One-Purpose-800x788.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4642\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"788\" data-id=\"4641\" src=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/One-Plan-800x788.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4641\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" data-id=\"4640\" src=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Keeping-our-Focus-Christ-1-300x251.png\" alt=\"Christ is the Focus of History\n\" class=\"wp-image-4640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Keeping-our-Focus-Christ-1-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Keeping-our-Focus-Christ-1-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Keeping-our-Focus-Christ-1.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is the point to which all of His Story <a href=\"https:\/\/webstersdictionary1828.com\/Dictionary\/focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">focuses<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of Scripture points to <strong>One Theme, One Person, and One God<\/strong> working His mighty deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>theme<\/strong> is man&#8217;s <em>Redemption from sin and reconciliation to God<\/em>, His Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>person<\/strong> is Christ, the Lamb of God, who came to be the sacrifice for our sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping our focus on <strong>One God<\/strong>, arranging all events according to His eternal plan and purpose, aligns all of <em>His Story<\/em> (past, present, and future) on the <strong>One<\/strong> who is worthy of all honor and praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pilgrim Institute shares a wealth of resources for families, Christian leaders, and educators. Find the best one for your sphere of influence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/christ-changed-history-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Article with Complimentary Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/christianity-turned-the-world-upside-down-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Christianity turned the world upside down\">Christianity Turned the World Upside Down<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/christianity-turned-the-world-upside-down-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Turning the World Upside Down, Part II\">Turning the World Upside Down, Part II<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/news-topmenu-19\/resources\/teaching-resources\/christ-changed-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/changedHistory-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Christ is the focus of history\" class=\"wp-image-1714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/changedHistory-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/changedHistory-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Story, focusing on Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-christian-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgriminstitute.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}