{"id":1272,"date":"2010-02-08T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worshipunrated.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2010-02-08T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:07:00","slug":"knowledge-gets-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/2010\/02\/08\/knowledge-gets-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Gets In The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Have you ever come across those people who seem to know everything about everything? They always have an answer. Don&#8217;t you just want to slap them?? Just kidding. However, &#8220;knowledge&#8221; can get in the way of relationship and enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Corinthians+8&amp;version=NIV\">Read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, my knowledge and understanding of God&#8217;s Word can actually hinder people from growing in their relationship to God. It&#8217;s like this; we know that the Bible is silent in some areas and speaks in others. Those &#8220;silent&#8221; areas, or gray areas, give room for personal interpretation. But what could be a liberty to me could even cause someone to sin! My knowledge of the Bible then becomes a hindrance to relationship with God instead of a freedom I can enjoy. A young Christian struggling to know what God desires or anyone who looks to me as a leader deserves an unquestionable example. I cannot allow my knowledge to ruin the enjoyment of pursuing Christ. If I do, I deserve to be slapped.<\/p>\n<p>Plainly said, if what I &#8220;______&#8221; causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic\">____________<\/span>&#8221; again, so that I will not cause him to fall. You fill in the blank&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Leave me a comment!<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever come across those people who seem to know everything about everything? They always have an answer. Don&#8217;t you just want to slap them?? Just kidding. However, &#8220;knowledge&#8221; can get in the way of relationship and enjoyment. Read this. So, my knowledge and understanding of God&#8217;s Word can actually hinder people from growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natestephan.com\/worshipunrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}