{"id":2538,"date":"2012-08-23T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:17:18","slug":"nurturing-the-youth-in-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Nurturing the Youth in Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEven if it is in church, the teacher must always give the youth the chance of receiving the Gospel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat I mean by that, is that a lot of churches treat their youth members as automacially saved. Not because their parents are Christians or that they've been in the church long enough to be &quot;Christians&quot;. But because perhaps it is a hard thing to inquire the hearts of the youth in regards to their salvation, for it could get &quot;a little&quot; intimate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut isn't that the purpose of Christian fellowship? Intimate fellowship in love and in truth before our Lord.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, this is not to say we treat all youth as unbelievers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOffering a chance, an opportunity in our teaching, for even the oldest member youth or the most mature youth in Sunday school, to receiving the Gospel, yet not condescending their intellect, spiritual well-being.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat is definitely better than not offering this chance at all and assuming all of them are godly Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if it is in church, the teacher must always give the youth the chance of receiving the Gospel. What I mean by that, is that a lot of churches treat their youth members as automacially saved. Not because their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2538\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}