{"id":2352,"date":"2023-01-29T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2023-02-03T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:23:38","slug":"the-problem-with-moralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Moralism (Romans 2:1-11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-29-23.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 2:1-11 <br>Moralism is making personal judgements about someone\u2019s righteousness based on our own rationale and thinking.<br>Romans 2:1<br>The moralist can always find a comparison that affirms he\/she is good enough to warrant heaven.<br>Romans 2:2-5<br>2 Peter 3:9<br>Romans 2:6-11<br>Summary: The Problem with moralism is our standards aren\u2019t God\u2019s standards. We don\u2019t judge impartially, and we\u2019re all guilty of not measuring up \u2013 even to our own standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question: How do we connect with others who seem to have a moralist mentality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have to lovingly help them see they don\u2019t measure up to God\u2019s standards.<br>We can start by sharing with them how we ourselves have come up short.<br>1 Timothy 1:12-16<br>Remember we have a secret weapon: The Holy Spirit.<br>John 16:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1ff0e527-0ca8-483e-8682-fcbcfbb42580\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-29-23.mp3\">The Problem With Moralism<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-29-23.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1ff0e527-0ca8-483e-8682-fcbcfbb42580\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 2:1-11 Moralism is making personal judgements about someone\u2019s righteousness based on our own rationale and thinking.Romans 2:1The moralist can always find a comparison that affirms he\/she is good enough to warrant heaven.Romans 2:2-52 Peter 3:9Romans 2:6-11Summary: The Problem with moralism is our standards aren\u2019t God\u2019s standards. We don\u2019t judge impartially, and we\u2019re all guilty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Problem With Moralism (Romans 2:1-11)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romans","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}