{"id":984,"date":"2011-09-17T06:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T04:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2011-09-17T06:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T04:56:33","slug":"the-centrality-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-centrality-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The centrality of the cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is nothing more important in\u00c2\u00a0Christian\u00c2\u00a0theology than our theology of the cross. We must speak clearly that \u00c2\u00a0the heart of the gospel is the good news of divine self-satisfaction through divine self-substitution. Never compromise on the cross. Never dilute the message of the cross. And never stop glorying in the cross where Christ accepted the penalties that should belong to us so that we can claim the blessings that would otherwise belong only to Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Kevin DeYoung, The good news we almost forgot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing more important in\u00c2\u00a0Christian\u00c2\u00a0theology than our theology of the cross. We must speak clearly that \u00c2\u00a0the heart of the gospel is the good news of divine self-satisfaction through divine self-substitution. Never compromise on the cross. Never dilute the message of the cross. And never stop glorying in the cross where Christ accepted the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-centrality-of-the-cross\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The centrality of the cross&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}