{"id":1988,"date":"2011-04-07T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2011-04-07T22:39:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:39:47","slug":"offering:-gratitude-or-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Offering: Gratitude or Command?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf it's a 50\/50 vote, then obviously I'm not crazy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, I do like the quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/evangelicals.split.on.tithing\/27797.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Douglas LeBlanc, author of Tithing: Test Me in This, commented, &quot;<strong>What is maddening to me is if there were a more explicit command to tithe, I think there would still be folks who would say, 'We are not in bondage to the law after all.<\/strong>'<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>&quot;American Christians in particular, I think, will never fail to find a way out of tithing if they are not interested.&quot; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it's a 50\/50 vote, then obviously I'm not crazy. However, I do like the quote from the article: Douglas LeBlanc, author of Tithing: Test Me in This, commented, &quot;What is maddening to me is if there were a more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1988\">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":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}