{"id":44,"date":"2007-03-23T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-05-05T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T16:46:20","slug":"jesus-and-the-sinners-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/\">Christianity Today<\/a> you will find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/march\/29.72.html\">a great article<\/a> well worth your read.<\/p>\n<p>It is entitled: <strong>Jesus and the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer &#8211; <em>What Jesus says doesn&#8217;t match what we usually say<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I, as well as most of my blog readers, grew up being taught by the local church that Christians should do evangelism a certain way (*cough* easy believism *cough*) and that it lined up with what the Bible says.<\/p>\n<p>Well, simply put, it doesn&#8217;t line up with what the Bible teaches and we had all better re-evaluate our thoughts about sharing the Gospel and what Jesus actually calls us to do. For those of you who know me well, you will see why I liked this article&#8217;s critique of modern Christianity&#8217;s teaching about how to do evangelism.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/march\/29.72.html\">the article<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In Christ and In defense of the Faith,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Christianity Today you will find a great article well worth your read. It is entitled: Jesus and the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer &#8211; What Jesus says doesn&#8217;t match what we usually say I, as well as most of my blog readers, grew up being taught by the local church that Christians should do evangelism a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=44\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus and the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}