{"id":6256,"date":"2019-10-31T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:35:45","slug":"saving-the-gospel-a-helicopter-view-of-galatians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=6256","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Gospel: A Helicopter View of Galatians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Barna Group&rsquo;s <em>2016 State of the Church<\/em> report,<\/p>\n<p>  Most people in this country identify themselves as Christian. Almost three-quarters of Americans (73%) say they are a Christian. However, 55% believe that if a person is generally good, or does enough good things for others during their life, they will earn a place in heaven, that good works are sufficient for eternal life.  <\/p>\n<p>This inconsistency leads me to ask two questions, &ldquo;Do people who identify themselves as Christian know the Bible&rsquo;s definition?&rdquo; and &ldquo;What gospel are they believing?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At best, many professing Christians are ignorant and confused about the exclusive nature of the gospel. At worst, they are believing a false gospel and the state of their own souls is in grave danger. The Bible is clear: No man, woman, or child will ever earn eternal life through good works or their own merit. Rather, the only way to be justified before God; that is, to be declared righteous, is by faith. This is the conclusion every person must come to in order to be saved. And that&rsquo;s the truth a German monk named Martin Luther had to come to as well.<\/p>\n<p>This month marks the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Barna Group\u2019s 2016 State of the Church report, Most people in this country identify themselves as Christian. Almost three-quarters of Americans (73%) say they are a Christian. However, 55% believe that if a person is generally good,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[5],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-gospel","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\/6256","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/6259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}