{"id":7261,"date":"2018-01-01T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T23:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2018-01-01T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T23:53:06","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7261","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Piper: \u201cYou either treasure Jesus above all, or you\u2019re not saved. If you don\u2019t value Jesus above everything else, you don\u2019t have saving faith.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ifVAo0yhnV\">pic.twitter.com\/ifVAo0yhnV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/947967489442566144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; we&#8217;ve all heard some variation of this before.  &#8220;If pleasing Jesus does not come ahead of your children, then YOU&#8217;RE NOT THE PARENT YOU SHOULD BE.&#8221;  And, &#8220;If pleasing Jesus is not more important to you than your spouse, then YOU&#8217;RE NOT THE WIFE\/HUSBAND YOU SHOULD BE.&#8221;  And, &#8220;If your career is more important to you than serving Our Invisible Friend, THEN YOU&#8217;RE NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Et cetera, et cetera<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said many times, most people have too much sense and decency to be good Christians; it&#8217;s the ones who don&#8217;t that you have to watch out for.  And, of course, the cynical cult-leaders they listen to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper: \u201cYou either treasure Jesus above all, or you\u2019re not saved. If you don\u2019t value Jesus above everything else, you don\u2019t have saving faith.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/ifVAo0yhnV &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) January 1, 2018 Well &#8230; we&#8217;ve all heard some variation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7261\">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\/7261"}],"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=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}