{"id":297,"date":"2015-07-16T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2015-07-16T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:02:15","slug":"we-cant-hear-the-good-news-if-were-thinking-like-defense-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/we-cant-hear-the-good-news-if-were-thinking-like-defense-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"We can&#8217;t hear the good news if we&#8217;re thinking like defense lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read, click here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Defensive-Thinking.pdf\">Defensive Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/courtroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/courtroom-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"courtroom\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . Jesus is not standing on the sidelines with a clipboard grading us on our failures. We default in that direction, but Jesus doesn&#8217;t. He gave fair and blunt warning to the teachers of the law that continuing down that path does not get you to Heaven. It&#8217;s the old highway to hell in self-righteous clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus insists that we NOT try to do this apart from Him, because being with Him is the essence of the whole thing. . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read, click here:\u00a0 Defensive Thinking . . . Jesus is not standing on the sidelines with a clipboard grading us on our failures. We default in that direction, but Jesus doesn&#8217;t. He gave fair and blunt warning to the teachers of the law that continuing down that path does not get you to Heaven. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,67,49,66,70,71,69],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-defense","tag-good-news","tag-gospel","tag-law","tag-moralism","tag-relationships","tag-thinking","books-of-the-bible-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}