{"id":7514,"date":"2017-05-06T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2017-05-06T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T18:11:12","slug":"common-wrong-conception-of-western-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7514","title":{"rendered":"Common Wrong Conception of Western Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The misleading idea today is that missionaries are those who work with a christian organization in a foreign country.<\/p>\n<p>The error could be further from the truth. The idea of being a missionary, is to preach the Gospel to non-believers in the most active means not seen in other offices of ministries. It can be supported by a church, not supported by a church, if the primary goal of a missionary is not achieved, one either cannot be a missionary or that one is a failed missionary.<\/p>\n<p>So when someone say to me they are missionaries or are missionary kids, unwittingly I would have to first wonder...because I might not have to take them as seriously as I take a true missionary. I would talk to them about: - So how's your \"vacation\" in foreign land like? What do you love to eat there most? Do you like the sunsets there? And they wouldn't be offended, I'm sure of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The misleading idea today is that missionaries are those who work with a christian organization in a foreign country. The error could be further from the truth. The idea of being a missionary, is to preach the Gospel to non-believers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7514\">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-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","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=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}