{"id":5535,"date":"2023-05-17T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T03:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2023-05-17T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T03:15:45","slug":"denominational-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5535","title":{"rendered":"DENOMINATIONAL DAMAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many churches take away the liberty of free-will accepting Jesus&#8212;and replace it with formulas, rituals, &#8216;classes&#8217;&#8212;to make another &#8216;member&#8217; (whether a true Christian or not).<br>Jesus described the religious leaders of His day the same way, with stronger words than we would use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whenever you make a convert, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tend to think we have progressed and think the words of Jesus don&#8217;t apply to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many churches take away the liberty of free-will accepting Jesus&#8212;and replace it with formulas, rituals, &#8216;classes&#8217;&#8212;to make another &#8216;member&#8217; (whether a true Christian or not).Jesus described the religious leaders of His day the same way, with stronger words than we would use. &#8220;Whenever you make a convert, you make him twice as much a son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535"}],"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=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}