{"id":1706,"date":"2011-05-10T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2021-03-28T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:27:04","slug":"the-danger-of-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2011\/the-danger-of-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lectura\">\n<p style=\"display:inline; padding:0; margin;0\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Mark 9:38-50<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>What does the Bible mean when it talks about offense?<\/p>\n<p>What does it take to offend me? And why?<\/p>\n<p>How do I mature beyond taking offense?<\/p>\n<p>Am I sufficiently generous (and Biblical) in accepting others in the kingdom, even the one who <span class=\"bible\">&#8220;followeth not us&#8221;<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Which do I fear more: Erring on the side of acceptance or erring on the side of rejection?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bible\">&#8220;Offend one of these little ones&#8221;<\/span> &#8212; What is he talking about? And who?<\/p>\n<p>How can I know whether or not I have offended someone in God&#8217;s perspective?<\/p>\n<p>How do I know which of these verses not to take literally?<\/p>\n<p>What is my present status of saltiness?<\/p>\n<p>Is there no hope for seasoning salt-free salt?<\/p>\n<p>How high will I go in my bid for <span class=\"bible\">&#8220;peace one with another&#8221;<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Which do I treasure most: peace, my rights, being right, truth?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Mark 9:38-50 What does the Bible mean when it talks about offense? What does it take to offend me? And why? How do I mature beyond taking offense? Am I sufficiently generous (and Biblical) in accepting others in the kingdom, even the one who &#8220;followeth not us&#8221;? Which do I fear more: Erring on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[47,44,49,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-1706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mark","7":"tag-liberty","8":"tag-live-right","9":"tag-surrender","10":"tag-warning","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-rw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}