{"id":2798,"date":"2021-08-25T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:24:54","slug":"orthopraxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/08\/25\/orthopraxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthopraxis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Of course faith matters. But what does faith mean if it doesn&#8217;t result in deeds of love? Read from the letter of James in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=217\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, for instance. Maybe it&#8217;s too easy to worship nicely &#8211; living right is much harder (I&#8217;m not always particularly successful in this respect &#8211; thank goodness for God&#8217;s mercy). However, living right is also essential to any faith that has any real meaning. Also consider the evangelistic benefits of living a life that is consistent with your words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plenty of walking today, and lovely too, especially with J. It seems I can take my knee a little further when I carry less weight. But I think there are limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course faith matters. But what does faith mean if it doesn&#8217;t result in deeds of love? Read from the letter of James in Sunday&#8217;s lectionary, for instance. Maybe it&#8217;s too easy to worship nicely &#8211; living right is much harder (I&#8217;m not always particularly successful in this respect &#8211; thank goodness for God&#8217;s mercy). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/08\/25\/orthopraxis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orthopraxis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}