{"id":73070,"date":"2024-03-06T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=73070"},"modified":"2024-03-07T05:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:53:54","slug":"a-la-carte-march-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=73070","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (March 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"756437a2-9dac-4d35-aeb4-a32fe4a5835b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the God of love and peace be with you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1d6f4148-bf66-4bba-9ff6-ea316478421a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As usual, you&#8217;ll find a few new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/visible-grace-in-disagreements\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=visible-grace-in-disagreements\" rel=\"noopener\">Visible Grace in Disagreements<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"61118ce4-1a2c-42e5-a205-e99b40669dc9\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a good one. &#8220;Here are three things we should strive for: Christians who are willing to confront but aren\u2019t eager for controversy. Christians who pursue a gentle revival, not a holy war. Christians who eavesdrop on Jesus\u2019 intercession instead of joining Satan\u2019s accusations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ealinglevy.wordpress.com\/2024\/03\/06\/whataboutery-ministers-letter-march-24\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Whataboutery<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"30b299ad-3163-4a77-ab6b-3f9076250b9c\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article grapples with &#8220;whataboutery,&#8221; the inclination to apply Scripture to everyone else before ourselves.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beautifulchristianlife.com\/blog\/is-church-discipline-mean\" rel=\"noopener\">Is Church Discipline Mean?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f4cc66fe-4453-4e39-9cf6-3580caf43a17\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R. Scott Clark explains why church discipline is not mean. To the contrary, when carried out as intended, it is a form of love. &#8220;In our time, the tendency is to view the church as a means of therapy, merely as a place of fellowship and encouragement, but not as the divinely instituted embassy in which the keys of the Kingdom of God are administered. Viewed thus, the very idea of church discipline seems high-handed, arbitrary, unjust, and even cruel. After all, the reasoning goes, who are those sinners to judge this sinner?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2024\/03\/06\/do-you-want-my-opinion\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Do You Want My<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: No need to fear, ever \/ Do you want my opinion? \/ Visible grace in disagreements \/ Whataboutery \/ Is church discipline mean \/ Biblical typology \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (October 26)A La Carte (October 23)A La Carte (1\/16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":73086,"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-73070","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\/2024\/03\/cover-a-la-carte-thu-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73070","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=73070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73088,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73070\/revisions\/73088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}