{"id":13112,"date":"2020-02-26T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=13112"},"modified":"2020-02-26T03:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:03:28","slug":"whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=13112","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Better Versus New<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was in my early teens, I became very aware of my sins and was filled with fear of God&rsquo;s punishment. I knew I was guilty before God, so to remedy this, I became very religious and tried desperately to fix myself. Like many others on this fool&rsquo;s errand of self-salvation, I didn&rsquo;t become any better&mdash;only more fearful, self-consumed, and confused. What I didn&rsquo;t realize was that I didn&rsquo;t need to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2020\/02\/26\/whats-new\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default mode of people facing sin and failure is religious self-improvement. While this is understandable, it is also futile. What we need is not to become better but to be made new. Paul proclaims four \u201cnews\u201d of the gospel in 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"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":[699,17,692,78,739,1830,1831,1832,1761,1829,1833,96],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-christ-likeness","tag-christian-living","tag-christianity","tag-gospel","tag-identity","tag-motivation","tag-new-creation","tag-purpose","tag-reconciliation","tag-regeneration","tag-righteousness-of-god","tag-sanctification","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","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\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13114,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions\/13114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}