{"id":1462,"date":"2010-07-29T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:48:16","slug":"the-yearning-for-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"The Yearning for Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;But there is a danger in our desire to do big things for God, for our pursuit of success dovetails with a powerful American temptation: the appeal of celebrity.\u00a0 These days, obscurity is the worst kind of failure.\u00a0 When we do something significant, we expect to be rewarded with popularity.&#8221;\u009d (Brandon O&#8217;Brien, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0764207830?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0764207830\">The Strategically Small Church, <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" rakokugluqsvqyuacywc rakokugluqsvqyuacywc egatgnsimdguhfetnfnf\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0764207830\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>27)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?&#8221;\u009d (Jesus, John 5:44)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But there is a danger in our desire to do big things for God, for our pursuit of success dovetails with a powerful American temptation: the appeal of celebrity.\u00a0 These days, obscurity is the worst kind of failure.\u00a0 When we do something significant, we expect to be rewarded with popularity.&#8221;\u009d (Brandon O&#8217;Brien, The Strategically Small &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Yearning for Popularity&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}