{"id":6423,"date":"2015-08-24T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2015-08-24T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:34:24","slug":"can-we-not-use-food-jobs-etc-to-attract-people-to-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6423","title":{"rendered":"Can we not use food, jobs, etc. to attract people to the church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, but that is only for attraction. They should not be the reason for someone to attend church. Many leaders\/organizers\/promoters\/church members do not realise or care about this.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, they make it a cause for conversion.<\/p>\n<p>When we use these \"incentives\", we must have integrity in our motives and characters.<\/p>\n<p>It will be very telling in the testing of someone's faith, once these incentives are removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, but that is only for attraction. They should not be the reason for someone to attend church. Many leaders\/organizers\/promoters\/church members do not realise or care about this. Worse still, they make it a cause for conversion. When we use &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6423\">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-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","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=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}