{"id":6053,"date":"2014-12-18T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2014-12-18T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:35:49","slug":"he-cant-make-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6053","title":{"rendered":"He Can&#8217;t Make a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her regular Thursday column, Bethany Jenkins gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/the-sacred-secular-divide-is-pure-fiction\">Martin Luther on the nonexistence of a sacred\/secular divide <\/a>. Here&#8217;s part of it. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pope or bishop anoints, shaves heads, ordains, consecrates, and prescribes garb different from that of the laity, but he can never make a man into a Christian or into a spiritual man by so doing. He might well make a man into a hypocrite or a humbug and blockhead, but never a Christian or a spiritual man. As far as that goes, we are all consecrated priests through baptism, as St. Peter says in 1 Peter 2:9, \u201cYou are a royal priesthood and a priestly realm.\u201d The Apocalypse says, \u201cThou hast made us to be priests and kings by thy blood\u201d (Rev. 5:9-10).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her regular Thursday column, Bethany Jenkins gives us Martin Luther on the nonexistence of a sacred\/secular divide . Here&#8217;s part of it. The pope or bishop anoints, shaves heads, ordains, consecrates, and prescribes garb different from that of the laity, but he can never make a man into a Christian or into a spiritual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He Can&#8217;t Make a Christian<\/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":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-religion"],"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\/6053","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=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}