{"id":68,"date":"2005-11-23T06:57:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=68"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:30:48","slug":"well-dressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/well-dressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Dressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;In like manner also&#8230;adorn themselves&#8230;with good works&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1 Timothy 2:8,9).<\/p>\n<p>When I think of adornment, I think of something intended to enhance eye appeal. So I think of decals on a vehicle or on a notebook. I might also think of suits, ties, sidewalk lights, jewelry, sunglasses, and belts.<\/p>\n<p>(Disclaimer: I don&#8217;t believe that all these things are automatically wrong or even necessarily always for adornment.)<\/p>\n<p>So the idea that good works should be an adornment for Christians is interesting to me.<\/p>\n<p>Good works enhance the believer&#8217;s appeal to the onlooker.<\/p>\n<p>Which raises two related questions:<\/p>\n<p>How well adorned am I?<\/p>\n<p>What is my &#8220;eye appeal&#8221; to those who know me?<\/p>\n<p>However, thinking of good works merely as an adornment makes them sound optional and even unnecessary. Like decals. Or white letters on a tire.<\/p>\n<p>Out of curiosity, I checked my Spanish Bible to see how it presents this concept.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of <i>adorn<\/i> it uses <i>clothe<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>For me that significantly changes the impact and applicability of the verse.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to good works, Christianity is not a &#8220;clothing optional&#8221; spirituality!<\/p>\n<p>Which raises a third question:<\/p>\n<p>How well-dressed am I?<\/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>&#8220;In like manner also&#8230;adorn themselves&#8230;with good works&#8221; (1 Timothy 2:8,9). When I think of adornment, I think of something intended to enhance eye appeal. So I think of decals on a vehicle or on a notebook. I might also think of suits, ties, sidewalk lights, jewelry, sunglasses, and belts. (Disclaimer: I don&#8217;t believe that all [&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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-timothy","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-16","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}