{"id":7798,"date":"2018-04-10T00:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T05:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:24:06","slug":"crazy-mens-stuff-does-not-produce-mature-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7798","title":{"rendered":"CRAZY MEN&#8217;S STUFF DOES NOT PRODUCE MATURE CHRISTIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qo8WGQg016c\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qo8WGQg016c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This drives home to me again that the largely disembodied, behavioristic models of Christian growth need to be shown a better way. I am troubled and have written a bit (book reviews of <em>Wild at Heart<\/em>, <em>Prayer of Jabez,<\/em> and a \u201cmen\u2019s\u201d book, <em>The Last Men&#8217;s Book You&#8217;ll Ever Need<\/em>) on the silly and superficial models that are all too easy to criticize. Men who rave about the life-changing nature of <em>Wild at Heart<\/em> boot camps and earlier things like Promise Keepers remain immature as Paul said \u201cin their thinking\u201d and so struggle (needlessly I must say) with all manners of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Historic Christianity has the resources to offer compelling models that address the whole person. My fear is that pastors and other Christian leaders are increasingly ignorant of the riches that largely remain buried.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This drives home to me again that the largely disembodied, behavioristic models of Christian growth need to be shown a better way. I am troubled and have written a bit (book reviews of Wild at Heart, Prayer of Jabez, and a \u201cmen\u2019s\u201d book, The Last Men&#8217;s Book You&#8217;ll Ever Need) on the silly and superficial [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","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=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7800,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}