{"id":2701,"date":"2009-05-13T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2009-05-13T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:51:09","slug":"are-evangelical-churches-ignoring-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Are Evangelical Churches Ignoring Christ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evangelicaloutpost.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/christless_christianity.html\">David Nilsen reviews Michael Horton&#8217;s book, <i>Christless Christianity:<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One famous Evangelical pastor has recently made popular the phrase, \u201cdeeds, not creeds.\u201d Evangelicals have their doctrine right, this pastor tells us, they just aren\u2019t living it. Against such sentiments, Dr. Horton argues that many Evangelicals actually do not have their doctrine right, or at least they aren\u2019t preaching it correctly. Evangelicals have confused the important categories of Law and Gospel, turning the Gospel message (which is supposed to be the good news of something that Christ has already done for us), into the Gospel program. If you\u2019ll only live out the Gospel (by reading your Bible every day, joining a certain group at church, and learning how to be a Christ-like example to others), you\u2019ll be healthy, wealthy and wise. The question to be answered is, \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d rather than, \u201cWhat has Jesus done?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Nilsen reviews Michael Horton&#8217;s book, Christless Christianity: One famous Evangelical pastor has recently made popular the phrase, \u201cdeeds, not creeds.\u201d Evangelicals have their doctrine right, this pastor tells us, they just aren\u2019t living it. Against such sentiments, Dr. Horton argues that many Evangelicals actually do not have their doctrine right, or at least they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are Evangelical Churches Ignoring Christ?<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}