{"id":384,"date":"2006-10-28T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=384"},"modified":"2006-10-28T23:41:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T23:41:45","slug":"rev.-james-hudson-taylor-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Rev. James Hudson Taylor III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say of our dear brethren?<\/p>\n<p>Because his great grandfather was too great, hence he&#39;s so little? About two years ago, he&#39;s been to New York Stony Brook University to give a speech, prior to that, he held a small conference at a church nearby, we&#39;ve talked. Since China is still rather &quot;fierce&quot; towards Christianity, Rev. J.H. Taylor III has promoted a &quot;christian&quot; organization allowing &quot;christians&quot; from all professions to come into the country, using this opportunity to preach the Gospel. I cannot discredit this action, but to call it a wise way of doing the Great Commission, I have to strongly disagree. This is nothing more than cultural commission, one that is also a must for all christians. To further call it the Great Commission, it would be an excuse. Escaping the responsibility of the kind of hardship passed down by the apostles. &quot;We must be wise!&quot; Please...don&#39;t make me correct the word &quot;wise&quot; with &quot;timid&quot;. At that time, I felt something wrong, but couldn&#39;t clearly discern due to my great reverence towards all missionaries; took me almost a year to see things clearly. What a shame. May the mercy of the Lord never leave me.  <\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, Jephtha&#39;s mother was a prostitute, yet he&#39;s become one of the most important Judges of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>So it is not who you are underneath; it is what you do that defines you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say of our dear brethren? Because his great grandfather was too great, hence he&#39;s so little? About two years ago, he&#39;s been to New York Stony Brook University to give a speech, prior to that, he held &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=384\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}