{"id":1359,"date":"2009-07-08T12:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-07-08T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:41:52","slug":"everyone-required-to-serve-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Required to Serve in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI noticed lots of Chinese church leaders, especially those of China\/Taiwanese background, and especially the smaller churches, love to stress the concept of &quot;Everyone Must Serve in a church&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs &quot;moral&quot; as this may sound, I'm afraid it's a shortcut that should not have been taken.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor there is only one thing that is needful, and that is listening to the Word of God.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>&quot;...for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.&quot;<\/em>&nbsp; <strong>(Luke 11:52)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed lots of Chinese church leaders, especially those of China\/Taiwanese background, and especially the smaller churches, love to stress the concept of &quot;Everyone Must Serve in a church&quot;. As &quot;moral&quot; as this may sound, I'm afraid it's a shortcut &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1359\">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-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}