{"id":2019,"date":"2011-05-09T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2011-05-09T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T18:54:48","slug":"sunday-school-using-rev.-stephen-tongs-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"Sunday School using Rev. Stephen Tong's Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn a small meeting of 3, Michael Liu brought up a question for pastor on why do we just use the videos and no &quot;live&quot; teaching.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo much thoughts bombarded my mind I didn't focus on giving an answer. That, is a fault. May God has mercy on me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn judging a Sunday School or Bible study, even sermon but let's just stay on the topic, I always determine the quality based on &quot;How qualified is this speaker\/leader&quot; to teach the Sunday School. Ultimately it doesn't depend on the degree one holds for there are those without it. This will decide if I should stay in that fellowship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I go to a fellowship and they rotate speakers from the members, calling it a &quot;discussion&quot; while the leader is not even qualified and the best candidate, usually the pastors or theology students are observing instead, I would say to myself - &quot;oh, brother, get me out of here&quot;, despite how &quot;warm&quot; and &quot;friendly&quot; the people in the fellowship are. If I just want some kind of social thing, I would find that in a bar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, Michael was asking out of sincerity. I should have done better than quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a small meeting of 3, Michael Liu brought up a question for pastor on why do we just use the videos and no &quot;live&quot; teaching. So much thoughts bombarded my mind I didn't focus on giving an answer. That, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2019\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","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=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}