{"id":552,"date":"2010-12-03T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-12-03T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T14:34:00","slug":"how-i-think-the-church-will-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"How I think the church will grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Indians had learned to look on us missionaries as friends, as people who would help them, and as good workers, but they had not yet learned to look on us as men and women of God.&#8221; (Quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Praying-Hyde-Apostle-Prayer-Story\/dp\/0882705415\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1291386823&#038;sr=8-1\">Praying Hyde<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The church will grow when people perceive that <i>here <\/i>there are men and women of God.<\/p>\n<p>And that will come about when we <i>become <\/i>men and women of God.<\/p>\n<p>And that will come about when we put the first commandment first.<\/p>\n<p>Let us pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Indians had learned to look on us missionaries as friends, as people who would help them, and as good workers, but they had not yet learned to look on us as men and women of God.&#8221; (Quoted in Praying Hyde). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=552\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-8U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}