{"id":978,"date":"2009-10-02T23:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T23:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/maybe_restoration_wasnt_what_was_needed.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:40","slug":"maybe_restoration_wasnt_what_was_needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/maybe_restoration_wasnt_what_was_needed.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Restoration Wasn&#8217;t What Was Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keithbrenton.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/some-time-in-next-few-days.html\">Keith Brenton asks<\/a> if maybe the good hearted men who began the Restoration Movement (of which my church has it&#8217;s roots) didn&#8217;t perhaps start off in the wrong direction in the first place.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The whole Restoration exercise has made us church-centered instead of Christ-centered. We preach church instead of Christ. We preach what to do instead of what He has done &#8211; and is doing, and would like to do through us, if we&#8217;d just let Him. &#8230;<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to be like the church of the first century. Or the eighteenth century. Or the twentieth, or even the twenty-first. I want to be like Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen Keith.  I think you nailed it.  Rather than the restoration business, perhaps we need to be in the redirection business.  Redirecting people to Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Brenton asks if maybe the good hearted men who began the Restoration Movement (of which my church has it&#8217;s roots) didn&#8217;t perhaps start off in the wrong direction in<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/maybe_restoration_wasnt_what_was_needed.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe Restoration Wasn&#8217;t What Was Needed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maybe Restoration Wasn&#039;t What Was Needed - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/maybe_restoration_wasnt_what_was_needed.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maybe Restoration Wasn&#039;t What Was Needed - 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