{"id":114393,"date":"2024-12-15T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114393"},"modified":"2024-12-15T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:40:15","slug":"beware-of-relational-heresy-while-addressing-perceived-doctrinal-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114393","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Relational Heresy While Addressing Perceived Doctrinal Heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>We talk a lot about doctrinal heresy\u2014and it is a vital issues that we must address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Orthodoxy\u2014right belief\u2014is essential.<\/p>\n<p>We seem to talk less about relational heresy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Orthopraxy\u2014right relationships, right living\u2014is equally essential.<\/p>\n<p>We talk even less about <em>right relationships<\/em> <em>while talking about right doctrine<\/em>. This runs counter to God\u2019s all-sufficient Word, which commands us to guard our hearts against relational heresy.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Greatest Command: Love\/Orthopraxy<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Bible consistently emphasizes God\u2019s greatest commandment\u2014love.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Matthew 22:35-40: <\/strong>\u201c\u2018Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?\u2019 Jesus replied:\u00a0\u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019This is the first and greatest commandment.\u00a0And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.\u2019\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>See the end of this post for a small sampling of all the times the Bible teaches about the greatest commandment\u2014love.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> You will see that love: is the greatest commandment; is the royal law; is the most important commandment; fulfills the whole law; summarizes the whole law.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Wrong Relationships When Addressing Right Doctrine: Relational Heresy<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Again, sadly, we rarely talk about <em>right relationships<\/em> <em>while talking<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible consistently addresses how we treat one another while we address doctrinal disagreements.<br \/>\nThe post Beware of Relational Heresy While Addressing Perceived Doctrinal Heresy appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":114407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[930,3708],"class_list":["post-114393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-orthopraxy","tag-relational-heresy","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Quarrelsome-12.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114408,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114393\/revisions\/114408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}