{"id":66228,"date":"2024-01-28T16:49:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=66228"},"modified":"2024-01-28T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:49:22","slug":"i-appreciate-your-post-about-not-drawing-attention-to-ourselves-based-on-the-things-we-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-appreciate-your-post-about-not-drawing-attention-to-ourselves-based-on-the-things-we-own\/","title":{"rendered":"I appreciate your post about not drawing attention to ourselves based on the things we own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for your post &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-it-a-sin-to-own-a-luxury-handbag\/\">Is it a sin to own a luxury handbag?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I am struggling with what the world says women should do to gain worth or look good vs. what God says. I am still learning. I prayed to God to teach me and searched on Google and found your article.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the answer you gave at the end. I really appreciate that you kindly but sternly pointed out biblical guidelines on this topic. That it&#8217;s not about drawing attention to ourselves by what we own.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>You are welcome. I&#8217;m glad to hear that the answers are benefiting people.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hello, Thank you so much for your post &#8220;Is it a sin to own a luxury handbag?&#8220; I am struggling with what the world says women should do to gain worth or look good vs. what God says. I am still learning. I prayed to God to teach me and searched on Google and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,365],"class_list":["post-66228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-modesty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53766,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-greatly-appreciate-your-outline-on-elijah\/","url_meta":{"origin":66228,"position":0},"title":"I greatly appreciate your outline on Elijah","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Brother, I just wanted to say thank you for posting your lessons online. 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