{"id":178,"date":"2005-05-14T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T01:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/choking-in-rules\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T01:50:47","slug":"choking-in-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/choking-in-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Choking in rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to religious traditions that forbid any practice not commanded in the New Testament, a friend of mine proposed a witty slogan: &#8220;If we wrapped ourselves up any tighter in rules, we&#8217;d likely choke.&#8221; But there can be humility to considering such rules. Or you can look at them from the cultural perspective I like to practice. If people experienced the power and authority of God while following certain rules, we don&#8217;t need to abandon those rules to experience God ourselves, and they may turn out to be more than just rules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to religious traditions that forbid any practice not commanded in the New Testament, a friend of mine proposed a witty slogan: &#8220;If we wrapped ourselves up any tighter in rules, we&#8217;d likely choke.&#8221; But there can be humility to considering such rules. Or you can look at them from the cultural perspective I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}