{"id":12618,"date":"2022-07-27T02:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2022-07-27T02:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:33:35","slug":"sunday-service-2022-07-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12618","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Service 2022-07-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sunday School<\/strong> - on Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 10 &amp; 20. The pastor kept on focusing against Christian Nationalism, which I agree. But what's missing is the distinction between Christian Nationalism and Christian Influenced Nation. First one is bad, second one is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Question was asked by pastor's father: What is the common ground in non-Christian cultures in relationship to God\/morality?<br>Hammurabi was brought up as an answer multiple times to refute human goodness. But what's lacking are these:<br>- Image &amp; Likeness of God (need to worship, unlike animals), ability to judge, recognizing eternity\/justice to some extend, <strong>totally depraved but not utterly depraved<\/strong>. (The pastor brought up total depravity but he used \"different degree of depth\" in depravity)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paradoxical living (something Pak Tong brought up often, but apparently foreign to most American as I have observed):<br>- Beer Commercial (drink everyday) \"Living only for the weekend is not living\" mentioned as a point of ridicule but not discussed in-depth: Everyday real living => Yes &amp; No = real enjoyment vs. drinking, playing, etc.<br>- Christian Influenced Nation vs. Christian Nationalism<br>- Cross is where the opposites were found: Shame and glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not quite relevant to the day, but I want to be reminded of how this pastor often uses words that are not quite the meaning of the accepted consensus:<br>- Judge, judgement = condemnation.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday School - on Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 10 &amp; 20. The pastor kept on focusing against Christian Nationalism, which I agree. But what's missing is the distinction between Christian Nationalism and Christian Influenced Nation. First one is bad, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12618\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","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=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12621,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}