{"id":5236,"date":"2014-07-25T22:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2014-07-25T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T02:23:35","slug":"christians-should-not-avoid-controversial-issues-franklin-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5236","title":{"rendered":"Christians Should not Avoid Controversial Issues - Franklin Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/michael-w-chapman\/franklin-graham-we-must-speak-moral-issues-or-we-are-cowards-and\" target=\"_blank\">it from Janet Mefferd<\/a> on FB.<br \/>\n<em>Amen! \"Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and son of world renowned pastor Bill Graham, said that Christians must preach the whole truth of the Bible and not avoid controversial topics, such as sin and judgment.\"<\/em> - Janet citing source.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of this quote:<\/p>\n<p>To pretend to preach the truth without offending carnal<br \/>\nmen, is to pretend to be able to do what Jesus Christ could<br \/>\nnot do. ~ Thomas Wilson (<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/maximsofpietyof00wils\/maximsofpietyof00wils_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Maxims of Piety and of Christianity<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got it from Janet Mefferd on FB. Amen! \"Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and son of world renowned pastor Bill Graham, said that Christians must preach the whole truth of the Bible and not avoid controversial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5236\">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":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-quotes","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}