{"id":2498,"date":"2012-07-19T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:43:43","slug":"preaching-is-duty-of-all-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Preaching is duty of all Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.<\/strong> - Charles H. Suprgeon\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf someone asks me: Why do you want to preach?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI shall simply reply: Because I am a Christian.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShould they respond: Then are you saying we are not Christians?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI shall simply say: What do you think?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThus my facebook response to where I learned this quote:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>I sometimes wish people would ask me: Why do you love to preach? or want to study at Seminary?<br \/>\n So I could simply reply: Because I am a Christian.<\/p>\n<p> Instead, they always think about whether or not to support me financially. Sigh.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. - Charles H. Suprgeon If someone asks me: Why do you want to preach? I shall simply reply: Because I am a Christian. Should they respond: Then are you saying we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2498\">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-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}