{"id":737,"date":"2013-03-02T07:24:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2013-03-02T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:24:30","slug":"playing-by-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/playing-by-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"playing by the &#8216;rules&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"409\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/12\/grace-is\/grace1\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Grace1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-409\" alt=\"Grace1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Grace1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Legalism is the antithesis of grace. Legalism says that the law is still king and in essence, Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 blood has not redeemed anything. Legalism says that grace is for the weak because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is more important than anything else. Legalism takes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and makes it into an idol. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important that our hearts and our churches and our groups of friends are free from legalism. It hampers our ability to grow in a healthy understanding of who God really is and how grand His love and grace is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legalism is the antithesis of grace. Legalism says that the law is still king and in essence, Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 blood has not redeemed anything. Legalism says that grace is for the weak because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is more important than anything else. Legalism takes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and makes it into an idol. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important that our hearts and our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/playing-by-the-rules\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grace","tag-discipleship","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/grace.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-bT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}