{"id":74671,"date":"2018-10-27T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74671"},"modified":"2018-10-27T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T21:00:36","slug":"saturday-food-for-thought-i-klyne-snodgrass-on-ephesians-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74671","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Food for Thought (I): Klyne Snodgrass on Ephesians 2:10"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The purpose of God\u2019s creative activity is not merely to have a people, as if he were constructing a work of art. Rather, this new creation is to be active and productive like the Creator. Christians are \u201cto do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do\u201d&#8230;.\u00a0Salvation is not from works, but it surely is\u00a0<i>for<\/i>\u00a0works, that is, living obediently and productively. In keeping with\u00a01:3\u201314\u00a0on God\u2019s planning, choosing, and acting, this verse shows God planned and acted not only to save, but also to mark out the way we should live. John Stott\u2019s words are not too strong: \u201cGood works are indispensable to salvation\u2014not as its ground or means \u2026 but as its consequence and evidence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Klyne Snodgrass, <strong>The NIV Application Commentary on Ephesians<\/strong> (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), p. 107, quoted by yours truly in last week&#8217;s adult education class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of God\u2019s creative activity is not merely to have a people, as if he were constructing a work of art. Rather, this new creation is to be active and productive like the Creator. Christians are \u201cto do good<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74671\">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":[92,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74671","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=74671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74677,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74671\/revisions\/74677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}