{"id":2347,"date":"2013-03-01T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2013-03-01T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T16:29:11","slug":"the-church-more-than-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"The Church, More than What It Seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThese two days [John 1:29-34] witnessed the beginning of the greatest institution in the world, &#8211; the Christian Church, &#8211; and the end of prophecy, which reached its goal when its last representative stood in the presence of Jesus, and, with pointing finger, designated Him as the Lamb of God.\u00a0 To outward seeming they were but a little knot of poor Jews.\u00a0 How kings and Caesars would have scoffed, if told that they were the nucleus of a movement which would shatter their thrones and reshape the world!\u00a0 \u2018The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Maclaren, <i>The Gospel of John<\/i> (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1893), 12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese two days [John 1:29-34] witnessed the beginning of the greatest institution in the world, &#8211; the Christian Church, &#8211; and the end of prophecy, which reached its goal when its last representative stood in the presence of Jesus, and, with pointing finger, designated Him as the Lamb of God.\u00a0 To outward seeming they were &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=2347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Church, More than What It Seems&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":[53,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}