{"id":479,"date":"2014-02-13T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2014-02-13T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T23:44:02","slug":"unconverted-believers-chapter-1-followme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"unconverted believers &#8211; chapter 1 &#8211; #followme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though not\u00a0<em>directly<\/em> the Bible, I am following-up my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/blogging-my-reading\">post<\/a>, and am blogging my reading. Here are some excerpts from {{David Platt}}&#8217;s book {{Follow Me}}:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;tell Ayan the truth&#8230;in the gospel, God is calling her to die.<br \/>\nLiterally.<br \/>\nTo die to her life.<br \/>\nTo die to her family.<br \/>\nTo die to her friends.<br \/>\nTo die to her future.<br \/>\nAnd in dying, to live. To live in Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus is worthy of far more than intellectual belief, and there is so much more to following him than monotonous spirituality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it possible for you or me to profess to be a Christian and yet not know Christ? Absolutely. And according to Jesus, it&#8217;s actually\u00a0<em>probable<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;even demons &#8216;believe&#8217; that Jesus is the crucified and resurrected Son of God. Such &#8216;belief&#8217; clearly doesn&#8217;t save, yet such &#8216;belief&#8217; is common across the world today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;people who claim to believe in Jesus are not assured eternity in heaven. On the contrary, only those who obey Jesus will enter his Kingdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;popular Christian slogans and politically correct positions .. keep us from truly knowing and passionately proclaiming Christ.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Other works cited in this chapter (by the author):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>{{My Utmost for His Highest}} by {{Oswald Chambers}}<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though not\u00a0directly the Bible, I am following-up my previous post, and am blogging my reading. Here are some excerpts from {{David Platt}}&#8217;s book {{Follow Me}}: &#8220;tell Ayan the truth&#8230;in the gospel, God is calling her to die. Literally. To die to her life. To die to her family. To die to her friends. To die &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=479\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">unconverted believers &#8211; chapter 1 &#8211; #followme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[883],"tags":[921,964],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study","tag-followme","tag-study-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}