{"id":299,"date":"2007-10-29T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:45:56","slug":"trueman-on-pandering-to-youthfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Trueman on Pandering to Youthfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Trueman has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/Upcoming_Issues\/To_Baldly_Go\/359\">good piece on how too often churches and pastors pander to the culture in an immature effort to be Cool -\u009d or &#8220;hip.&#8221;\u009d <\/a> He starts with a humorous discussion of baldness. I encourage you to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Trueman is really on to something. We need to get over ourselves and get more caught up with God. My generation is really too concerned with appearing young. We need to lead the way in showing that the goal is to grow in wisdom and grace as we age in years- not to follow Peter Pan in a puerile pursuit of being forever young. Idolizing youth is adolescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Trueman has written a good piece on how too often churches and pastors pander to the culture in an immature effort to be Cool -\u009d or &#8220;hip.&#8221;\u009d He starts with a humorous discussion of baldness. I encourage you to check it out. Trueman is really on to something. We need to get over ourselves &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Trueman on Pandering to Youthfulness&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}