{"id":115662,"date":"2025-01-10T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115662"},"modified":"2025-01-10T03:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:01:49","slug":"true-freedom-breaking-free-from-false-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115662","title":{"rendered":"True Freedom: Breaking Free from False Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Pastor, I&rsquo;ve never felt less free.&rdquo; The young man sitting across from me in my counseling office had everything our culture associates with freedom&mdash;a successful career, financial independence, and complete autonomy over his life choices. Yet here he was, shoulders slumped, describing his bondage to anxiety, achievement, and approval. Despite breaking free from his strict religious upbringing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2025\/01\/10\/true-freedom-breaking-free-from-false-liberty\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True freedom in Christ transcends cultural definitions of autonomy and independence. While the world equates freedom with unrestricted choice, biblical freedom means being liberated from sin&#8217;s power to live as God intended. Through Christ&#8217;s work and the Spirit&#8217;s power, believers find authentic freedom not in doing whatever they want, but in submitting to God&#8217;s design. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":115664,"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":[279],"tags":[445,65,1576,454,936,708],"class_list":["post-115662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-addiction","tag-forgiveness","tag-freedom","tag-pastoral-care","tag-people-in-need-of-care","tag-people-who-offer-care","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\/2025\/01\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-7.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662","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\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115665,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115662\/revisions\/115665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}