{"id":4762,"date":"2014-10-08T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2014-10-07T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T03:50:52","slug":"so-simple-so-neglected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"SO SIMPLE, SO NEGLECTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Watching the video I posted yesterday reminds me of a simple, yet widely neglected truth: Christians must wrestle with the beliefs of their faith.\u00a0 We are now embarrassed to say doctrine and theology.\u00a0 Sounds too impractical.\u00a0 If people come to that tragic conclusion, it is either the teacher&#8217;s fault or it could be the student&#8217;s fault.\u00a0 But it is never the subject of vibrant and life-giving theology.\u00a0 And notice how I felt compelled to modify theology. \u00a0Maybe I am too defensive!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens when we mainly attract people to church with the social benefits, yet they don&#8217;t really understand much of what the Christian faith is about?\u00a0 Well, if they get troubled and want to ask probing questions, they might be told good Christians don&#8217;t struggle with such things.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard my share of such horror stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christianity is true, but rightly understood it is beautiful, compelling, worth everything we are and have.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the video I posted yesterday reminds me of a simple, yet widely neglected truth: Christians must wrestle with the beliefs of their faith.\u00a0 We are now embarrassed to say doctrine and theology.\u00a0 Sounds too impractical.\u00a0 If people come to that tragic conclusion, it is either the teacher&#8217;s fault or it could be the student&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,43,106,62,26,37,30,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-christianity","category-church","category-discipleship","category-doubt","category-learningeducation","category-teaching","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}