{"id":2802,"date":"2013-10-16T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2013-10-16T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:32:30","slug":"putting-real-life-into-my-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/putting-real-life-into-my-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting “Real Life” into My Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the course of writing material for the Teacher Guide for an eighth grade Bible course, I’ve come to a lesson titled “Evil Will Lose.” It’s based on portions of 2 Thessalonians 1 & 2.<\/p>\n

While researching through some of my previous writing on those chapters, I came to this:<\/p>\n

I’m talking about pleasure sources that may be amoral or even moral for the most part but have unrighteousness scattered through them.<\/p>\n

I know, I know. Life is life, and life has loads of unrighteousness through it.<\/p>\n

But why must my “entertainment” present it?<\/p>\n

To be more interesting and realistic.<\/p>\n

Fine. My concern stands.<\/p>\n

This is a strike against many of contemporary Christian novels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote that almost eight years ago, but it’s pertinent enough that I’m encouraging you to read the entire piece — My Pleasure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I still stand there. Or do I need to see something differently?<\/p>\n

What do you think of including detailed evil in order to make something real-to-life?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justifying taking pleasure in unrighteousness. Excusing brushing up against darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[894,880,416,962],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-inspirational","tag-life-lessons","tag-morality","tag-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}