{"id":2546,"date":"2007-07-24T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:55:52","slug":"tbtm20070724","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2546","title":{"rendered":"TBTM20070724"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/RqWvOhSmUtI\/AAAAAAAABEQ\/eph9vpoPbco\/s1600-h\/TBTM20070724.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/RqWvOhSmUtI\/AAAAAAAABEQ\/eph9vpoPbco\/s400\/TBTM20070724.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Today I celebrate four years in post. And I do mean celebrate. We had this text at Morning Prayer, which rather amused me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers. I have laboured and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn? If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He rather puts my grumbles into proper perspective!<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I celebrate four years in post. And I do mean celebrate. We had this text at Morning Prayer, which rather amused me: Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2546\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-ministry","category-tbtm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-F4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}