{"id":857,"date":"2008-05-31T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=857"},"modified":"2008-05-31T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T11:03:09","slug":"motives-of-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Motives of Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people preach out of entertainment; some, out of burden because of love and duty; some, out of reluctance. <\/p>\n<p>The first one is like that of the witch doctor, Simon, in Acts chapter 8.<\/p>\n<p>The latter one is like that of Martha. But Martha had something they don&#39;t, that is she was willing to seek after the Truth from the Lord, she&#39;s willing to to submit, to learn. <\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people preach out of entertainment; some, out of burden because of love and duty; some, out of reluctance. The first one is like that of the witch doctor, Simon, in Acts chapter 8. The latter one is like that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=857\">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-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}