{"id":662,"date":"2007-11-15T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=662"},"modified":"2007-11-15T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T13:00:09","slug":"serve-god-to-serve-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Serve God to Serve the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this be reversed, it is not right.<\/p>\n<p>On the debate of Predestination, George Whitefield wrote to John Wesley:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;<em>...This letter, no doubt, will lose me many friends: and for this cause perhaps God has laid this difficult task upon me, even to see whether I am willing to forsake all for him, or not. From such considerations as these, I think it my duty to bear an humble testimony, and earnestly to plead for the truths which, I am convinced, are clearly revealed in the Word of God. In the defence whereof <strong>I must use great plainness of speech, and treat my dearest friends upon earth with the greatest simplicity, faithfulness, and freedom, leaving the consequences of all to God<\/strong><\/em>....&quot;<\/font>&nbsp; (12\/24\/1740)<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this be reversed, it is not right. On the debate of Predestination, George Whitefield wrote to John Wesley: &quot;...This letter, no doubt, will lose me many friends: and for this cause perhaps God has laid this difficult task upon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=662\">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-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}