{"id":3300,"date":"2016-03-01T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:52:09","slug":"disingenuous-theology-related-quote-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"Disingenuous theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t even intentional on my part. I just noticed a few weeks ago that I had stopped describing myself to people as an \u201cevangelical.\u201d I had begun, subconsciously, to say that I am a \u201cgospel Christian.\u201d When I caught myself doing this, I wondered why and the answer wasn\u2019t long in coming.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cevangelical\u201d has become almost meaningless this year, and in many ways the word itself is at the moment subverting the gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2016\/02\/29\/russell-moore-dont-call-me-an-evangelical\/?email=BobFelton%40gmail.com&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=The%20Slingshot%20Nones%20at%20the%20polls%20a%20Sikh%20soldier%20sues%20and%20at%20home%20with%20Franklin%20Graham&#038;utm_content=The%20Slingshot%20Nones%20at%20the%20polls%20a%20Sikh%20soldier%20sues%20and%20at%20home%20with%20Franklin%20Graham+CID_fadad71f05ddec736bf5c1506f135ef4&#038;utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&#038;utm_term=Russell%20Moore%20Dont%20call%20me%20an%20evangelical\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Moore<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, pal, but you Southern Baptists <i>own<\/i> &#8216;evangelical.&#8217;  And just so&#8217;s you know?  Nobody is misunderstanding who evangelicals are; it is who you are that has made &#8216;evangelicals&#8217; a dirty word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t even intentional on my part. I just noticed a few weeks ago that I had stopped describing myself to people as an \u201cevangelical.\u201d I had begun, subconsciously, to say that I am a \u201cgospel Christian.\u201d When I caught &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}