{"id":712,"date":"2010-12-06T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-12-06T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:55:32","slug":"the-distance-between-lips-and-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"The distance between lips and hearts &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 2:5 (NIV)<br \/>Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the height from which you have fallen &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They had worked hard and endured; they could sniff out a false teacher like a bloodhound. <\/p>\n<p>But the distance between knowing about God and even working hard for God compared to loving God is so great that God was going to judge them if they couldn&#8217;t make their way back to a loving relationship with their Savior.<\/p>\n<p>He drew a very clear distinction between their idea of service and his idea of devotion. You can serve and not be devoted. You cannot be devoted and not serve. <\/p>\n<p>God called it sin; he called them out on their idea of &#8220;doing church.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 2:5 (NIV)Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Remember the height from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=712\">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-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}