{"id":390,"date":"2008-10-24T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-10-24T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:36:00","slug":"stetzer-on-living-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Stetzer on Living the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SQH6FJZEocI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/Mp3xZTJMFHA\/s1600-h\/stetzer.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260760806072820162\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 145px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SQH6FJZEocI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/Mp3xZTJMFHA\/s200\/stetzer.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Ed Stetzer was our speaker in chapel here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\/\">Union<\/a> today. He did a great job preaching on living the gospel from 2 Cor 5:16-21. You can access the audio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\/audio\/Detail.cfm?ID=348\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>He quoted Mark Twain saying that the church is good people standing in front of good people telling them how to be good people. This is indeed how the church is viewed too often- both inside and outside of the church. We so desperately need to become gospel-centered people- people who know our own deep need of the gospel, who have seen and experienced the beauty and power of the gospel , whose lives are increasingly shaped by the gospel, and who therefore seek to share this gospel with others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Stetzer was our speaker in chapel here at Union today. He did a great job preaching on living the gospel from 2 Cor 5:16-21. You can access the audio here. He quoted Mark Twain saying that the church is good people standing in front of good people telling them how to be good people. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Stetzer on Living the Gospel&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":[],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}