{"id":10691,"date":"2016-08-17T00:54:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/worldlove-not-worship-meaningless\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:23","slug":"worldlove-not-worship-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/worldlove-not-worship-meaningless\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD:\nLOVE NOT; WORSHIP: MEANINGLESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of fundamentalist Christians. They might hedge around the question if they were asked bluntly to declare their position, but their conduct gives them away. They are facing both ways, enjoying Christ <i>and<\/i> the world, gleefully telling everyone that acceptg Jesus does not require them to give up their fun\u2014Christianity is just the jolliest thing imaginable. The \u201cworship\u201d growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself\u2014a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>2 Corinthians 6:17\u201318<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>This World: Playground or Battleground?,<\/i> 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of fundamentalist Christians. They might hedge around the question if they were asked bluntly to declare their position, but their conduct gives them away. They are facing both ways, enjoying Christ and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/worldlove-not-worship-meaningless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WORLD:<br \/>\nLOVE NOT; WORSHIP: MEANINGLESS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}