{"id":12797,"date":"2022-08-21T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12797"},"modified":"2022-08-21T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:49:32","slug":"evangelism-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12797","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism with love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drfrankturek\/posts\/pfbid0912zXZXEVUwK5DDa3iT35YRbhDvKW7WZMQAoSRZcMt9RMuT1pbt7b6isXyXf9muDl?__cft__[0]=AZVKOKUGR8msbZdqXJHndqYN-8gfr-Qq3dKimGxhjN_DBPAQB6SAy-hrxdbIR57n7tDhRCjm_Q-5I10SyeuTmxFuKw8Mch-D6w-6Ra7A5jpzJSbb3NTFcMPpMECGOZ9L1RjVAl47Tk_C6bP3bRtvxK7O8jRIJj2Z6-CN892H0bD6wA&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this from Facebook<\/a> and two thoughts came to my mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To give all credit, glory to God, avoid the temptation of self glory. Reflect on how to love sinners in Evangelism.<\/li><li>How did I get perceived as a Baptist. In fact, I am definitely not a Baptist, even though I have no problem worshipping in a Baptist church. I tried to remember my conversation with him and couldn't remember if I gave any hint of being a Baptist. I wonder if I should clarify that: I don't want to make it look like too big of a deal, but also don't want be the one leading him to Baptist churches. Also, reflection on how we reformers associate ourselves with other denominations.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"538\" src=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12798\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image.png 663w, http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this from Facebook and two thoughts came to my mind: To give all credit, glory to God, avoid the temptation of self glory. Reflect on how to love sinners in Evangelism. How did I get perceived as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=12797\">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-12797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797","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=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12801,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions\/12801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}