{"id":5020,"date":"2011-10-17T07:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2011-10-17T07:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:48:57","slug":"wimpy-christian-stuffs-gotta-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wimpy-christian-stuffs-gotta-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimpy Christian Stuff&#8217;s Gotta Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/leave-no-doubt-icon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"208\" \/>If I&#8217;ve learned anything over the years, it&#8217;s this.\u00a0 <strong>There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be Christian ranging from highly political, to pushy, to arrogant, to soft and wimpy.<\/strong>\u00a0 None of these stereotypes really make it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today I talked about some of the things that, as a follower of Jesus, I must oppose.\u00a0 Things like: those who want to dilute the gospel into something it&#8217;s not, people who want to deceive or divide, even those who want to destroy.\u00a0 The truth is, it&#8217;s a very dangerous world out there.\u00a0 And you have to be on guard.\u00a0 Today we talked about the ways to do that without becoming a jerk.\u00a0 There are ways to be on the offensive without <em>being<\/em> offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;ve learned anything over the years, it&#8217;s this.\u00a0 There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be Christian ranging from highly political, to pushy, to arrogant, to soft and wimpy.\u00a0 None of these stereotypes really make it. Today I talked about some of the things that, as a follower of Jesus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wimpy-christian-stuffs-gotta-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wimpy Christian Stuff&#8217;s Gotta Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}