{"id":1449,"date":"2009-10-04T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2009-10-04T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T19:26:12","slug":"choir-as-a-fellowship!","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Choir as a Fellowship?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nToday it's the first time I heard that there is such a thing as a choir being treated as a fellowship (Interest group with a religious purpose in this case). Thus, that means that not every member in such choir is to be treated as <strong>co-workers<\/strong> of our Lord, even <strong>brothers and sisters<\/strong>. Otherwise, it would be hypocrisy, wouldn't it?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nObviously, this sort of thing could only happen when people are lazy to preach the Gospel, thereby having the need to adopt some &quot;pretend christians&quot; in order to survive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReally, this much I know, I cannot having any American Chinese co-workers in my ministry unless some special circumstances which is highly unlikely. I can co-work with them in their ministries, but not the other way around, for I have the responsibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTelling a non-Christian: &quot;It's okay that you're not Christian, but you are serving God!&quot; is plainly LYING to the poor soul for selfish church growth benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it's the first time I heard that there is such a thing as a choir being treated as a fellowship (Interest group with a religious purpose in this case). Thus, that means that not every member in such choir &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1449\">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-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}