{"id":4929,"date":"2014-06-02T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:38:24","slug":"on-non-association-with-cccny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4929","title":{"rendered":"I have No Association with CCCNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm not associated with the Chinese Community Church of New York. <strong>Never have<\/strong>. I've watched this carefully since the beginning. They gave me membership themselves, I did not ask for it, nor do I see a need to fight for its revocation. I wouldn't call it a cult, I have mentioned of its pros. The key reason for my non-association with this church is:<\/p>\n<p>It is <strong>not a<\/strong> <strong>Gospel-centered<\/strong> church. It has<strong> no vision<\/strong>. It values people to people relationship <strong>more than the relationship with God<\/strong>. It is <strong>leaning towards liberalism<\/strong>, or to use Jahja Ling's terminology but not intended by him: A \"Social Gospel church\". However, I wouldn't quite call it a social gospel church, because Redeemer is doing far more social related works and I consider it not a social gospel but a Gospel centered church. Spent a few days memorizing Redeemer's vision:<\/p>\n<p><em>As a church of Jesus Christ, Redeemer exists to help build a great city for all people through a <strong>gospel movement<\/strong> that brings <strong>personal conversion<\/strong>, community formation, social justice, and cultural renewal to New York City and, through it, to the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I would try to help them, because if Ravi Zacharias dared to preach <strong>for<\/strong> the Mormon Tabernacle people, helping this shipwreck [CCCNY] should be a merciful act rather than heresy, but association is just too much to ask for, I will not be part of the shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm not associated with the Chinese Community Church of New York. Never have. I've watched this carefully since the beginning. They gave me membership themselves, I did not ask for it, nor do I see a need to fight for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4929\">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":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","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=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}