{"id":7278,"date":"2024-04-05T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:25","slug":"perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7278","title":{"rendered":"PERFECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Perfect&#8221; is one of those biblical words that deserves to be wrestled with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does it mean that Jesus called us to &#8220;be perfect&#8221;? (Matt 5:48)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have always disliked the &#8220;Christian&#8221; bumper sticker slogan &#8220;I&#8217;m not perfect, just forgiven&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It fits right in with the all too common perception that a trip to the altar when you were eleven years old somehow functions as eternal fire insurance. And it doesn&#8217;t really matter how you live out the rest of your days &#8211; Jesus paid for all your sins on the cross, past, present, and future.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just frame that altar trip behind some glass and hang it on the wall. You won&#8217;t really need it until death comes calling.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s really nothing in the New Testament that could justify such a view.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Americans read their Bibles more, I think this would be pretty obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hebrews 10:14 &#8211; <i>For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Perfect&#8221; is one of those biblical words that deserves to be wrestled with.\u00a0 What does it mean that Jesus called us to &#8220;be perfect&#8221;? (Matt 5:48) I have always disliked the &#8220;Christian&#8221; bumper sticker slogan &#8220;I&#8217;m not perfect, just forgiven&#8221;.\u00a0 It fits right in with the all too common perception that a trip to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7279,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions\/7279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}