{"id":21804,"date":"2026-09-11T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21804"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:19:43","slug":"journal-of-the-week-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21804","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9\/11\/2026 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This discussion on \"<strong>Is Extroversion Required to Be a Good Christian<\/strong>\" by Holy Post Media is not that great, so I commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Extroversion Required to Be a &quot;Good&quot; Christian?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOXd2LafV-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Look, it's not about extroverts nor introverts. It's about either ACTIVE fellowship in Christ like a family or ACTIVE witnessing. So <strong>whatever you do, are you causing others to praise God for it or are they more busy figuring out if you're introverts or extroverts<\/strong>. The monastic monks provided refuge and treasures (active) in chaos, but they also locked themselves (passive) from the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another one is on <strong>Should Faith-Based Organizations Ever Accept Government Money<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Should Faith-Based Organizations Ever Accept Government Money?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gt4q9aQ7TYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Look, it's not about should or shouldn't. It's about is this calling observers to affirm that this is <strong>the work of the Holy Spirit<\/strong> (i.e. not excuses of \"through gov\", nor something hollywood writers can replicate) <strong>or men<\/strong> (i.e. the government, not God, is supporting your ministry)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holy Post Media often raises great questions though. This much I give them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/11\/2026 Friday This discussion on \"Is Extroversion Required to Be a Good Christian\" by Holy Post Media is not that great, so I commented: Look, it's not about extroverts nor introverts. It's about either ACTIVE fellowship in Christ like a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21804\">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-21804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804","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=21804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21809,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions\/21809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}