{"id":1794,"date":"2021-07-22T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2021-07-22T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T01:00:38","slug":"sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/sidelined\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidelined by Theological Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1794\" class=\"elementor elementor-1794\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cdd4e87 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cdd4e87\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c8672f7\" data-id=\"6c8672f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46c2b7dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46c2b7dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Sidlow Baxter writes, commenting on Paul\u2019s letter to the church in Colosse, which was suffering from ingestion of heretical teaching that devalued Christ,<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cLet no one think that this \u2018disease\u2019 which was symptomatic at long-ago Colosse has no meaning for our own days, that there is no fear of our being \u2018haunted by the ghosts of dead heresies.\u2019 In every generation one or another reappears in fresh garb and with new deceptiveness.\u201d<\/p><p>Writing in response to Paul\u2019s justification in verse 4 of \u201cI say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments,\u201d J.I. Packer wrote,<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;Sad experience shows that bad theology infects the heart with misbelief and unbelief, the spiritual equivalents of multiple sclerosis!<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Many who ran well have been progressively paralyzed through ingesting bad theology, and the danger remains.\u201d<\/p><p>Amidst a seemingly ever-increasing scene of \u201cfallen runners of the faith,\u201d our efforts center on anchoring church leaders in sound doctrine, in order that they may run with excellence, and to completion, the race set out before them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidlow Baxter writes, commenting on Paul\u2019s letter to the church in Colosse, which was suffering from ingestion of heretical teaching that devalued Christ, \u201cLet no one think that this \u2018disease\u2019 which was symptomatic at long-ago Colosse has no meaning for our own days, that there is no fear of our being \u2018haunted by the ghosts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theology"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sidelined-blog-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sidelined-blog-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}