{"id":2363,"date":"2023-02-12T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:35:37","slug":"the-problem-with-religious-identity-romans-31-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Religious Identity (Romans 3:1-20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-12-23.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Religious identity is about relying on heritage and history for salvation, rather than having genuine faith in Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 2:17 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 2:25 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 2:28-29 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with Religious Identity is that it creates a false sense of entitlement that prevents someone from turning to Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 3:1-4 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 51:3-4 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 3:5-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 2:4-5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 3:9-18 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 14:7 (or 53:6) *incorrect verse numbers are referenced <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah 59:20 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 2:19-20 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summary: religious identity (history and heritage) can\u2019t save anyone. Only faith in Jesus can accomplish that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some churches\/denominations genuinely believe they are the only ones going to heaven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people cling to their Christian religious identity despite not having any real relationship with Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help them see that religious identity (relying on history and heritage) can\u2019t save anyone. Only Jesus can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6b60287f-918f-4732-a55d-7ffbe1ab9ada\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-12-23.mp3\">The Problem With Religious Identity<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2-12-23.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6b60287f-918f-4732-a55d-7ffbe1ab9ada\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious identity is about relying on heritage and history for salvation, rather than having genuine faith in Christ. Romans 2:17 Romans 2:25 Romans 2:28-29 The problem with Religious Identity is that it creates a false sense of entitlement that prevents someone from turning to Jesus. Romans 3:1-4 Psalm 51:3-4 Romans 3:5-8 Romans 2:4-5 Romans 3:9-18 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=2363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Problem with Religious Identity (Romans 3:1-20)<\/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":[60,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romans","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2370"}],"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=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}