{"id":3460,"date":"2017-11-13T19:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2018-02-12T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:20:42","slug":"ii-reformation-required-again-and-again-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"(2) REFORMATION REQUIRED AGAIN \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 AND AGAIN, and . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(please read these Reformation articles in numbered order)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther said, &#8221; The Christian is to show the prince how to bear the sword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the church is ever going to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lead<\/span> people in the world to the saving grace of Jesus, it must stop <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">following<\/span> the world system of economics and shifting cultural values and norms.<\/p>\n<p>The frog in the comfortable, warm, culture pot has no influence on anything&#8212;no salt, no light.<\/p>\n<p>It is almost too late for the American church to jump out of the pot and be salt and light.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask the average Christian to give up their retirement for the kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(please read these Reformation articles in numbered order) Martin Luther said, &#8221; The Christian is to show the prince how to bear the sword.&#8221; If the church is ever going to lead people in the world to the saving grace of Jesus, it must stop following the world system of economics and shifting cultural values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}