{"id":970,"date":"2011-07-15T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=970"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:04:56","slug":"head-or-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Head or Heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Head or Heart?<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>(From Octavius Winslow\u2019s, \u201cThe Coming of the<br \/>\nLord in its Relation to Nominal Christianity\u201d) <\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>A person may have well balanced theology, and his general views of truth would be considered evangelical and orthodox. And yet, thus far may\u00a0 he proceed in the deepest \u2018self deception\u2019. With all this \u201cform of knowledge,\u201d this lodgment\u00a0 of the truth in the understanding, this subscription of the intellect to the doctrines of revelation, he<br \/>\nis an utter stranger to that \u2018heart transformation\u2019, that inward illumination of the Holy Spirit, without which the soul is spiritually dead, the heart is unrenewed and unholy, and the whole man is<br \/>\nunfit for the kingdom of heaven. In short, we have here the case of one who, while his judgment assents to the truth, his heart entirely<br \/>\nrejects it. The Gospel is to him a thing of intellectual \u00a0subscription, and not of heart experience. Not a single truth of the Bible has become an element of life and \u00a0holiness in his soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head or Heart? (From Octavius Winslow\u2019s, \u201cThe Coming of the Lord in its Relation to Nominal Christianity\u201d) A person may have well balanced theology, and his general views of truth would be considered evangelical and orthodox. And yet, thus far may\u00a0 he proceed in the deepest \u2018self deception\u2019. With all this \u201cform of knowledge,\u201d this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}