{"id":1231,"date":"2009-02-15T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2009-02-15T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:52:00","slug":"priorities-of-church-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Priorities of Church Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA pastor once told me that they are short of basses in the choir and may need to hire singers for a performance. Now I've always hold to the principle of &quot;Only Christians&quot; when it comes to serving. Since I'm not the authority in charge, I really don't care about enforcing such spiritually educational principle on a second party. However, if they have that kind of money to hire a performance singer, I believe it is better if they use that money to hire a Sunday School teacher.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, the sad thing is,&nbsp; those of us who are of little faith in America has come to depend on the principle of &quot;the end justifies the mean&quot; in one form or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor once told me that they are short of basses in the choir and may need to hire singers for a performance. Now I've always hold to the principle of &quot;Only Christians&quot; when it comes to serving. Since I'm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1231\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}