{"id":27937,"date":"2023-08-31T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-worship-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:58:17","slug":"2023-maderight","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-maderight\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Made Right with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">By Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #1a344d;\">How would you fill in this blank:\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">A person is made right with God through\u2026<\/span><\/em>? Simple statement, yet don\u2019t let its brevity fool you. How you complete it is critical. It reflects the nature of your faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27938 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maderight-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maderight-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maderight-1-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #1a344d;\">A person is made right with God through\u2026 Being good. Giving sandwiches to the poor. Christian conduct, that\u2019s the secret! Suffering, there\u2019s the answer. Sleep on dirt floors. Malaria, poverty, bare feet. The greater the pain, the greater the saint. No, no, no. The way to be made right with God? Doctrine. Airtight theology which explains every mystery. Inspiration clarified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27939 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1b.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1b-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #1a344d;\">How\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">are<\/span><\/em>\u00a0we made right with God? All the above are tried, all are demonstrated, but none are from God.\u00a0Romans 3:28 says, \u201c<strong>A person is made right with God through faith.<\/strong>\u201d Through faith in God\u2019s sacrifice on the cross. It\u2019s not what you do, it\u2019s what he did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27940 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1c.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1c-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":27940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-27937","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/27937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/27937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27941,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/27937\/revisions\/27941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27937"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=27937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}