{"id":1216,"date":"2009-01-27T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2009-01-27T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T23:55:13","slug":"on-chinese-christians-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"On Chinese Christians Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article5587017.ece\" target=\"_new\">article<\/a> forwarded by a friend, I do have high hope for China. However, I sometimes worry and pray for God\u2019s mercy due to the advancement of some Christian cults as well as pentacostals\/charismatics teachings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI also worry for America a little bit. If China could embrace Christianity without relying on the resources from  the West more than needed for mere references, then judging from the way the world is turning right now, I believe the glory of America will be dimmed significantly as Europe if not worse, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth from American Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an article forwarded by a friend, I do have high hope for China. However, I sometimes worry and pray for God\u2019s mercy due to the advancement of some Christian cults as well as pentacostals\/charismatics teachings. I also worry for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}