{"id":1929,"date":"2011-02-14T01:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T01:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2011-02-14T01:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T01:38:03","slug":"recent-email-on-former-church-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Recent Email on Former Church leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI recently received an email from a friend I had acquainted with during Dr. Stephen Tong's Rally. Since he brought up the name, I shared my thought on this person, who has now left CCGC and joined his chuch, briefly, with him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHis recent email made a short statement about this person as being good to the church, claiming to lean towards calvinism.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI replied I had no doubt about his doctrinal direction and that it is good to hear he's being &quot;good&quot; to his church.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat would be enough. Despite my suspicion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, the major problem I have on this person is simple: Promising but immature for his age, as a christian. Then this is similar to most young western christian leaders these days. Nothing shocking.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, when I recall the past, after all these years, I have arrived at a much clearer conclusion:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen one can indulge in a thousand girlfriends while holding a leadership position in a Christian community and making himself greater than the incumbency of a pastoral anointment of God, it is very difficult for me not to have a huge question mark on his sense of responsibility, not in the world, but in God's work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an email from a friend I had acquainted with during Dr. Stephen Tong's Rally. Since he brought up the name, I shared my thought on this person, who has now left CCGC and joined his chuch, briefly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1929\">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-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}