{"id":413,"date":"2006-12-05T02:06:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=413"},"modified":"2006-12-05T02:06:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T02:06:33","slug":"on-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"On Evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Testimonies which blame others rather than oneself, are garbage testimonies. More than often, I&#39;ve heard such everywhere, Bible study, baptism ceremony, sharing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>They&#39;re always in this form: Oh how others are treating me, how others are hurting people, then when I come to church, meet christians, I see how nice they are. So, I &quot;believe&quot; Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>I do not dare say this is not a testimony. But I do dare say this is not a testimony on how one becomes a christian. How Christ changes the life of oneself from a sinner to a saint.<\/p>\n<p>Now knowing this is the truth, do I break it out like wild fire? Nay, for such is the temptation of evil. So do I keep quiet? Nay, for such is the work of Satan the blockade of Truth.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the only way is by God&#39;s wisdom, which is the combination of both His righteousness and grace. Because of His righteousness, I have the right to be angry at perverted ways, because of His grace, I cannot let myself be controlled by my anger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimonies which blame others rather than oneself, are garbage testimonies. More than often, I&#39;ve heard such everywhere, Bible study, baptism ceremony, sharing, etc. They&#39;re always in this form: Oh how others are treating me, how others are hurting people, then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=413\">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-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}