{"id":259,"date":"2007-07-17T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:59:55","slug":"james-stewart-and-the-missionary-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"James Stewart and the Missionary Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/Rp2L4opkENI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/JvN2Y2Us034\/s1600-h\/StewartSmall_0.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088376959099211986\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/Rp2L4opkENI\/AAAAAAAAAIY\/JvN2Y2Us034\/s200\/StewartSmall_0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Those who have read this blog for some time will know of my appreciation of James S. Stewart, the prominent Scottish preacher and New Testament scholar (<a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/search?q=%22james+stewart%22\">previous posts<\/a>). I am currently working on an encyclopedia entry on Stewart, and have come across another great quote. In his book on preaching, Heralds of God, Stewart stated:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;no church is anything more than a pathetic pietistic backwater unless it is first and fundamentally and all the time a world missionary church.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Well put! As pastors we must see to it that the task of world evangelization stays front and center in our churches.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who have read this blog for some time will know of my appreciation of James S. Stewart, the prominent Scottish preacher and New Testament scholar (previous posts). I am currently working on an encyclopedia entry on Stewart, and have come across another great quote. In his book on preaching, Heralds of God, Stewart stated: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;James Stewart and the Missionary Church&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":[3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}