{"id":9250,"date":"2020-08-09T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=9250"},"modified":"2020-08-09T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:46:51","slug":"sermon-stephen-tong-sunday-service-08-09-2020-matthew-65-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=9250","title":{"rendered":"Sermon - Stephen Tong Sunday Service 08\/09\/2020 Matthew 6:5-8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No other religion teaches out to pray. As if Christians are not devoted enough that they need to be taught about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By a kiss, Judas sold Jesus. Therefore, the appearance of devotion\/intimacy is not good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lord's prayer did not seek for wealth, selfish stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amen = truly = sincerely<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who pray in the church with lighted candles (i.e. Roman Catholics) Do they pray at home? Mostly not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why Tong must use best pianos for the church, because he was born in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulangyu\" target=\"_blank\">Gulangyu<\/a>. A place of high culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is you true relationship with God when you are in your own room praying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tong rebuked prayer leaders of the services for prepping everyone's hearts to pray too long. Simplified prayer items, let others prayer of the detail themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No other religion teaches out to pray. As if Christians are not devoted enough that they need to be taught about this. By a kiss, Judas sold Jesus. Therefore, the appearance of devotion\/intimacy is not good enough. The Lord's prayer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=9250\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250","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=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}