{"id":2375,"date":"2012-04-19T23:08:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2012-04-19T23:08:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T23:08:59","slug":"edification-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2375","title":{"rendered":"Edification Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Edification does not mean we feel better; it means we live better.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nby John MacArthur in his book: Worship - The Ultimate Priority, pg. 192\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis well suit for John Chen, who does not care for any advices or admonitions that he cannot &quot;feel good&quot; about and therefore deems them &quot;not edifying&quot;. The likes of him are many, entering churches of today, worshiping emotions, making friends of people, and not sanctifying disciples of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edification does not mean we feel better; it means we live better. by John MacArthur in his book: Worship - The Ultimate Priority, pg. 192 This well suit for John Chen, who does not care for any advices or admonitions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2375\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","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=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}