{"id":2124,"date":"2011-09-19T08:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T08:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:22:09","slug":"scott-sauls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"Scott Sauls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder I sensed Redeemer Senior pastor Scott Sauls' evangelical approach a problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/scott-sauls\/7\/b13\/b91\" target=\"_blank\">He's from Riverside Church<\/a>, which is much affected by social gospel movement. And so do many traditional churches in America today. I think it's an excuse to eliminate the need to preach to strangers, or simply put, the Great Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I wasn't the only one. Based on a news about how pastor Scott was decommissioned from the future new church. (Or it could be that the committee decided to have just 1 senior pastor instead of 2 for the new church.)<\/p>\n<p>Though I do agree with Tim Keller, that if one is commissioned, it is not right to decommission one especially when the whole thing hasn't even started yet.<\/p>\n<p>If Sauls decided to strive through this, my respect for him shall grow. I do hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder I sensed Redeemer Senior pastor Scott Sauls' evangelical approach a problem. He's from Riverside Church, which is much affected by social gospel movement. And so do many traditional churches in America today. I think it's an excuse to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2124\">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-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","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=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7038,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}