{"id":1129,"date":"2012-04-25T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:19:34","slug":"lighting-our-own-fires-walking-in-our-own-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"Lighting our own fires, walking in our own light &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">Sometimes we light our own fires. Run on our own enthusiasm and energy. Add some religious expressions. Quote the Bible and we&#8217;ve made something pretty nice. But that&#8217;s the problem. We made our religion instead of worshiping the One who made us.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posterous_autopost\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<ul>\n<li>Isaiah 50:11 (NIV)\u00a0But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dave Scott Bottle Rocket Theology &#8230; The simple art of following Jesus Son of God<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bottlerockettheology.com\">http:\/\/bottlerockettheology.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we light our own fires. Run on our own enthusiasm and energy. Add some religious expressions. Quote the Bible and we&#8217;ve made something pretty nice. But that&#8217;s the problem. We made our religion instead of worshiping the One who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}