{"id":8617,"date":"2020-07-28T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2020-07-28T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T01:50:18","slug":"moralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8617","title":{"rendered":"Moralism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jersak-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jersak-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jersak-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jersak-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jersak-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know moralism has displaced your life in Christ when living faith is reduced to a system of correct behavior and moral merit badges instead of a dynamic relationship with the indwelling Holy Spirit.  We don&#8217;t acquire the presence of the Holy Spirit by accumulating moral merit badges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_way.html\">A More Christlike Way<\/a><\/em>, p. 72<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Burg Lahneck, Germany, August 11, 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know moralism has displaced your life in Christ when living faith is reduced to a system of correct behavior and moral merit badges instead of a dynamic relationship with the indwelling Holy Spirit. We don&#8217;t acquire the presence of the Holy Spirit by accumulating moral merit badges. &#8212; Bradley Jersak, A More Christlike Way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-jesus","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}