{"id":197,"date":"2017-08-17T07:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2017-08-17T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:24:16","slug":"that-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"That Simple?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Thien Dang<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You’re undoubtedly familiar with the K.I.S.S. approach \u2013 “Keep It Simple, Stupid” (you may substitute “Silly” for “Stupid” if use of that word is discouraged in your home). The idea behind the approach is pretty straight-forward: we’re better off keeping things simple rather than making them unnecessarily complicated. Generally speaking, the simpler something is, the less risk there is of confusion or error.<\/p>\n

Do you suppose it’s possible that there is an avoidance of, or an aversion to, Christianity, because we can make it more complicated than it needs to be? In no way do I mean to marginalize the Bible or imply that doctrine is unimportant. But, to the extent that one fails to see the forest for the trees, maybe a reminder about the simplicity of Christianity is in order. It really isn’t that complicated.<\/p>\n

He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:12).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There you have it. Or don’t. But what determines whether or not you have it is whether or not you have the Son, Jesus Christ. To have him as Savior is to have life; to not have him is to not have life.<\/p>\n

Some balk in disgust that it should be so easy. But I didn’t say it was easy (recall what the Father chose to give up, after all!). If it was easy, I suspect the whole world would be Christian, since “easy” is what we all seem to be chasing. No, I said it was simple. And it is.<\/p>\n

Beautifully simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’re undoubtedly familiar with the K.I.S.S. approach \u2013 “Keep It Simple, Stupid” (you may substitute “Silly” for “Stupid” if use of that word is discouraged in your home). The idea behind the approach is pretty straight-forward: we’re better off keeping things simple rather than making them unnecessarily complicated. Generally speaking, the simpler something is, the… Continue reading That Simple?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p842FN-3b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}