{"id":2462,"date":"2012-06-15T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2012-06-15T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:15:02","slug":"on-apologetics-and-ministry-and-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"On Apologetics and Ministry and Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFor 2Timothy 4:2, &quot;<strong>Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.<\/strong>&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp; a deeper meditation is necessary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince it has to do with both rebuke and longsuffering, I shall generalize it simply this:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen it concerns personal influence, association of reputation in fellowship, and false doctrnes are preached, then there must be head on collision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen it is but discussion, preaching, teaching, preparing to agree to disagree, non-association of ministry, there is no need to attack the vipers but merely question to reveal their own folly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the side note, recent talk with my mother on a particular group of the &quot;non-judgmental&quot; type called BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) urged me to take on this group. Since it so much emphasizes on not being a denomination, I'll not be too anxious to call it anything but a particular fellowship group. After all, to be qualified to be called a denomination, a group needs to be willing to have fellowship with other denominations in both similarities and <strong>especially dissimilarities<\/strong>, not a rejection of all other denominations and claiming themselves the only ones biblical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut I need not take on another non-denomination group. Its shallowness and problems have been well documented everywhere. And I have already covered similar errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2Timothy 4:2, &quot;Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.&quot; &nbsp; a deeper meditation is necessary. Since it has to do with both rebuke and longsuffering, I shall generalize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2462\">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":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memory-verses","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}