{"id":4169,"date":"2024-02-13T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2024-02-01T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T01:00:05","slug":"winsomeness-the-besetting-sin-of-evangelicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"Winsomeness: the Besetting Sin of Evangelicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For most of my life I&#8217;ve been told to be more winsome around unbelievers so I don&#8217;t push them away from Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, they were already living in enmity against Jesus long before I suggested they repent and believe the gospel. I couldn&#8217;t push them farther away if I tried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a lot of &#8220;Calvinist&#8221; pastors who are unfamiliar with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crcna.org\/welcome\/beliefs\/confessions\/canons-dort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canons of Dordt.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of my life I&#8217;ve been told to be more winsome around unbelievers so I don&#8217;t push them away from Jesus. However, they were already living in enmity against Jesus long before I suggested they repent and believe the gospel. I couldn&#8217;t push them farther away if I tried.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeeswirls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}