{"id":57492,"date":"2023-02-07T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=57492"},"modified":"2023-02-07T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:05:24","slug":"a-la-carte-february-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=57492","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blessings to you today, my friends.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/tell-your-anxieties-to-ask-permission\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Tell Your Anxieties To Ask Permission<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ftc.co\/resource-library\/blog-entries\/shepherds-feed-the-sheep\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Shepherds Feed the Sheep<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jared Wilson: \u201cMany of these churches \u2013 philosophically \u2013 operate more like parachurches. And the result is this: it is the sheep, the very lambs of God, who basically become the outsiders.\u00a0And so you will have leading practitioners of these churches saying things to believers like, \u2018Church isn\u2019t for you.\u2019\u00a0For example\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/greatandnobletasks.com\/2023\/02\/06\/unshockable-parenting\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Unshockable Parenting<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will you do when your 17-year-old tells you that his girlfriend, the one you counseled him not to date because she is not a Christian, is pregnant? How will you react when you find out from another parent that for the past six months, your daughter has been going by a different name and using the boys\u2019 restroom at her middle school? What will be going through your head when your teen proudly displays her new tattoo or eyebrow piercing at church?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/do-humans-have-free-will-the-answer-of-course-is-it-depends\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Do Humans Have Free Will? The Answer (Of Course) Is: It Depends!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Justin Taylor answers a good question. And, like so many questions, it really depends on what you\u2019re actually asking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com\/2023\/02\/06\/the-devil-is-blinding-you-to-glory\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Devil is Blinding You to Glory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessings to you today, my friends. (Yesterday on the blog: Tell Your Anxieties To Ask Permission) Shepherds Feed the Sheep Jared Wilson: \u201cMany of these churches \u2013 philosophically \u2013 operate more like parachurches. And the result is this: it is the sheep, the very lambs of God, who basically become the outsiders.\u00a0And so you will have leading practitioners of these churches saying things to believers like, \u2018Church isn\u2019t for you.\u2019\u00a0For example\u2026\u201d Unshockable Parenting \u201cWhat will you do when your 17-year-old \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":57500,"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":[31],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-57492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-a-la-carte","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\/2023\/02\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-TUES20b-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57502,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492\/revisions\/57502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}