{"id":345,"date":"2024-02-28T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/come-as-you-are\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:17:25","slug":"come-as-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/come-as-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Come As You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Come As You Are\" width=\"1104\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VyOF2pDnzfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;come as you are&#8221; isn&#8217;t directly from the Bible or Jesus. Matthew 22:10-14&#8217;s parable of the wedding feast shows the importance of readiness to meet God&#8217;s standards. I believe encountering God should lead to personal growth, not staying unchanged. Using &#8220;come as you are&#8221; as an excuse for complacency contradicts spiritual growth. I advocate for genuine renewal and living according to God&#8217;s standards, cautioning against false teachings promoting stagnation. #marcusvbrown #izfly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;come as you are&#8221; isn&#8217;t directly from the Bible or Jesus. Matthew 22:10-14&#8217;s parable of the wedding feast shows the importance of readiness to meet God&#8217;s standards. I believe encountering God should lead to personal growth, not staying unchanged. Using &#8220;come as you are&#8221; as an excuse for complacency contradicts spiritual growth. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-teachings","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcus.izfly.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}