{"id":1730,"date":"2010-07-20T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:31:16","slug":"gideon-international:-why-gideon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Gideon International: Why Gideon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAccording to Wikipedia, The name Gideon was chosen for this organization because:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Gideon was a man who was willing to do exactly what God wanted him to<br \/>\ndo, regardless of his own judgment as to the plans or results. Humility,<br \/>\nfaith, and obedience were his great elements of character. This is the<br \/>\nstandard that The Gideons International is trying to establish in all<br \/>\nits members, each man to be ready to do God's will at any time, at any<br \/>\nplace, and in any way that the Holy Spirit leads. <\/em>Wikipedia\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd thus the symbol of picther and torch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI personally treasure the lesson of Gideon as the method of finding co-workers in the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia, The name Gideon was chosen for this organization because: Gideon was a man who was willing to do exactly what God wanted him to do, regardless of his own judgment as to the plans or results. Humility, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1730\">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-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","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=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}