{"id":119,"date":"2015-02-11T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/the-christian-beer-guy\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:50:00","slug":"the-christian-beer-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/the-christian-beer-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian &#8220;Beer&#8221; Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scenario concerning Christian Liberty and Alcohol.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A person grows up in a fundamentalist type background. This person was taught that alcohol is sin. Don&#8217;t drink it, try it, look at it, or go to a place that serves it. Alcohol is the drink of the devils. Then all of the sudden this person makes a complete 180. They discover Christian liberty. Beer becomes a top 5 favorite word in their vocabulary. Like a college freshman uses the word &#8220;Coffee&#8221; this person finds any nook and cranny of a conversation to use the &#8220;B&#8221; word. They&#8217;re so happy to have been delivered from that old Pharisaical way! You know this person right? Is this you? Please consider the following: &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>The Lie<\/b>: Christian Liberty itself is the message that brings liberty. So always talk about it. Always flaunt your freedoms. Show people how strong you are! Make all those &#8220;Pharisees&#8221; squirm. They will see how attractive your prideful boasting in your freedoms is and want to be free like you!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>The Truth: <\/b>Only the Gospel liberates. Those with true Christian Liberty understand that the message is not liberty itself, but Jesus. A Christian not only free to partake but free to abstain. Christians don&#8217;t become strong through the message of Christian Liberty, but through the message and power of the Gospel.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scenario concerning Christian Liberty and Alcohol.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A person grows up in a fundamentalist type background. This person was taught that alcohol is sin. Don&#8217;t drink it, try it, look at it, or go to a place that serves it. Alcohol is the drink of the devils. Then all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/gospelpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}