{"id":780,"date":"2010-05-24T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-06-06T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T14:23:11","slug":"obedience-the-hard-but-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/obedience-the-hard-but-right-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Obedience: The Hard but Right Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin DeYoung has a <a title=\"The Glory of Plodding, Kevin DeYoung\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/glory-plodding\/\" target=\"_blank\">great blog post<\/a> about the not-so-glorious task of being  a faithful church member versus choosing the more en vogue, but less biblical path of setting out on your own and seeking to change the world through radical action.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sexy among young people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d my generation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to talk about ditching  institutional religion and starting a revolution of real  Christ-followers living in real community without the confines of  church. Besides being unbiblical, such notions of churchless  Christianity are unrealistic. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s immaturity actually, like the newly  engaged couple who think romance preserves the marriage, when the couple  celebrating their golden anniversary know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the institution of  marriage that preserves the romance. Without the God-given habit of  corporate worship and the God-given mandate of corporate accountability,  we will not prove faithful over the long\u00c2\u00a0haul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"The Glory of Plodding, Kevin DeYoung\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/glory-plodding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin DeYoung has a great blog post about the not-so-glorious task of being a faithful church member versus&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/obedience-the-hard-but-right-path\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}