{"id":1525,"date":"2009-12-12T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2009-12-12T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T22:08:15","slug":"more-serving-opportunity-in-smaller-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"More Serving Opportunity in smaller Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs I noted before, there are those shallow minded evangelicals who motivate people to stay in small churches, keeping them from being attracted by big colorful churches, by saying: In smaller churches, one's chance of being selected into &quot;important&quot; roles is higher.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAllow me to ask: Is it really because of God's call to serve? or because of one's pride for not being recognized in bigger churches?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEven St. Francis of Assisi, who communed to beasts, dared not recede himself with a mask of humility in such manner, but boldly went preaching and serving great multitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted before, there are those shallow minded evangelicals who motivate people to stay in small churches, keeping them from being attracted by big colorful churches, by saying: In smaller churches, one's chance of being selected into &quot;important&quot; roles &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1525\">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-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","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=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}