{"id":132054,"date":"2024-10-18T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132054"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:41:53","slug":"ct-bonnie-kristian-25-precepts-for-this-and-every-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132054","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Bonnie Kristian&#8211;25 Precepts for This (and Every) Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1 &#8230;most of us, in this brash and hasty culture, are more likely to need forbearance and grace for those we believe to be less spiritual, moral, intelligent, or knowledgeable than ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2-Forbearance isn\u2019t tolerance. Grace is not condescension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3-Nor are forbearance and grace indecision and cowardice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4-Remember 1 John 4:20: \u201cWhoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister\u00a0is a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5-Lasting political disagreement among Christians is not by itself evidence of sin, unbelief, or any other dysfunction. Reasonable, faithful Christians may in good faith reach different conclusions. They may all have solid biblical support for their views; they may all seek the common good; they may all seek to love their neighbors; they may always disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2024\/09\/25-politics-precepts-commands-election\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bonniekristian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bonniekristian<\/a> offers 25 precepts on disagreement, faithfulness, forbearance, and voting for this (and every) election season:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MlJfCSwgUQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/MlJfCSwgUQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1840851624077472252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8230;most of us, in this brash and hasty culture, are more likely to need forbearance and grace for those we believe to be less spiritual, moral, intelligent, or knowledgeable than ourselves. 2-Forbearance isn\u2019t tolerance. Grace is not condescension. 3-Nor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132054\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,175,168,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132063,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132054\/revisions\/132063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}