{"id":278,"date":"2007-08-30T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:29:58","slug":"spurgeon-and-the-centrality-of-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Spurgeon and the Centrality of Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great quote from Spurgeon on the importance of preaching from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kairosjournal.org\/index.aspx?L=1\">Kairos Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pulpit has become dishonored; it is esteemed as being of very little worth and of no esteem. Ah! we must always maintain the dignity of the pulpit. I hold that it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Thermopylae\">Thermopylae<\/a> of Christendom; it is here that the battle must be fought between right and wrong; not so much with the pen, valuable as that is as an assistant, as with the living voice of earnest men, &#8220;contending earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more on this excerpt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kairosjournal.org\/Document.aspx?QuadrantID=1&amp;CategoryID=8&amp;amp;TopicID=49&amp;DocumentID=6320&amp;L=1\">see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great quote from Spurgeon on the importance of preaching from Kairos Journal. The pulpit has become dishonored; it is esteemed as being of very little worth and of no esteem. Ah! we must always maintain the dignity of the pulpit. I hold that it is the Thermopylae of Christendom; it is here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Spurgeon and the Centrality of Preaching&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":[51,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}