{"id":4211,"date":"2026-06-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:01:05","slug":"the-cross-creates-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/the-cross-creates-a-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross Creates a Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 8. Paul\u2019s concern in 1 Corinthians 11 is not merely about the mechanics of the Lord\u2019s Supper, but about the character of the church as God\u2019s family. The Lord\u2019s Table proclaims not only Christ\u2019s death, but also our unity as brothers and sisters.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><\/p><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFqcvY2HhL0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5><strong>Audio only:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2351074997&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\" title=\"Kings Church\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings Church<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kings-church\/the-cross-creates-a-family\" title=\"The Cross Creates a Family \u2014 Martin Cooper\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cross Creates a Family \u2014 Martin Cooper<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Shaped Lives, part 8. Paul\u2019s concern in 1 Corinthians 11 is not merely about the mechanics of the Lord\u2019s Supper, but about the character of the church as God\u2019s family. The Lord\u2019s Table proclaims not only Christ\u2019s death, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/the-cross-creates-a-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cross Creates a Family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450],"tags":[48,433,80,136,279,213,247,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}