{"id":5385,"date":"2017-01-13T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:05:33","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5385","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Gerencser points toward a piece written by a pastor&#8217;s daughter that is <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2017\/01\/christians-say-the-darnedest-things-life-is-all-about-jesus-by-jaquelle-crowe\/\" target=\"_blank\">well-written but painfully oblivious<\/a>.  It ends with this arresting declaration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The narrative of self-fulfillment is an enemy of the gospel.  [ &#8230; ]  Parents, teach your children life really isn\u2019t about them; it is about Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s not bad, and analogous to my frequent criticism that the aim of Christian teaching is self-annihilation &#8212; the eradication of self-interest and self-direction because the <i>self<\/i> is evil.<\/p>\n<p>So, to all of you who think I read things into sermons that aren&#8217;t actually there, I haven&#8217;t misunderstood Christian teaching; I have rejected it as untrue and affirmatively degrading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Gerencser points toward a piece written by a pastor&#8217;s daughter that is well-written but painfully oblivious. It ends with this arresting declaration: The narrative of self-fulfillment is an enemy of the gospel. [ &#8230; ] Parents, teach your children &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5385\">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\/5385"}],"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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}