{"id":3479,"date":"2008-02-17T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:00:01","slug":"if-you-think-im-going-to-hell-you-should-care-that-im-going-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/if-you-think-im-going-to-hell-you-should-care-that-im-going-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"If you think I&#8217;m going to hell, you should care that I&#8217;m going to hell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.the-next-wave-ezine.info\/issue110\/index.cfm?id=33&amp;ref=ARTICLES%5FTHEOLOGY%5F486\">Next-Wave Ezine<\/span> &#8211; <strong>Dan Kimball<\/strong> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus didn&#8217;t seem to focus on hell as a means of evangelism. I am fully aware of how Jesus focused on the Kingdom of Heaven on earth for His teachings, not only the after-life. I think we have often taken hell and subtly infused hell as the primary focus and motivation for salvation and the gospel &#8211; which I think has altered what the 1 Cor. 15 gospel holistically is. But then I fear that some can remove hell and judgment from the gospel and we are left with the same path some of the more extreme  &#8220;liberal&#8221; (so to speak, I don&#8217;t like using terms but can&#8217;t think of others right now) churches currently and in the past have taken to where hell, judgment, eternal shutting out from the presence of God  (2 Thess. 1:7-9) is not mentioned or seen only as a metaphor for this life and not the afterlife. It has to be holistic and I believe in eternal judgment and there is separation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would the subject line describe you? Do we get too caught up in the salvation of a person that we forget about caring and loving them?<br \/>\nI pray it&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest Next-Wave Ezine &#8211; Dan Kimball writes: Jesus didn&#8217;t seem to focus on hell as a means of evangelism. I am fully aware of how Jesus focused on the Kingdom of Heaven on earth for His teachings, not only the after-life. I think we have often taken hell and subtly infused hell as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/if-you-think-im-going-to-hell-you-should-care-that-im-going-to-hell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you think I&#8217;m going to hell, you should care that I&#8217;m going to hell.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[795,706],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-hell","tag-next-wave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-U7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}