{"id":530,"date":"2007-07-18T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/the-world\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T03:12:23","slug":"the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The world"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Violent persecution [of Christians] focuses the mind on the fact that the kingdom of his world is an enemy to the kingdom of God. When there hasn&#8217;t been any persecution for a long time &#8211; as in our part of the world &#8211; many Christians start expecting the world to be a friend. They slip into seeking the world&#8217;s approval instead of Gods. When the world <em>denies<\/em> its approval &#8230; they go hollow inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from the book <strong>How to Stay Christian in College<\/strong> by J. Budziszewski &#8211; his name is not misspelled, in case you were wondering.<\/p>\n<p>That is a good insight.<br \/>\nIt is no wonder the church is not much different from the world in many respects &#8211; divorce rate, pornography use, premarital sex.<\/p>\n<p>It is no wonder Christians are afraid to share their faith for fear of rejection and ridicule by the world.<\/p>\n<p>There is a very subtle enemy at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent persecution [of Christians] focuses the mind on the fact that the kingdom of his world is an enemy to the kingdom of God. When there hasn&#8217;t been any persecution for a long time &#8211; as in our part of the world &#8211; many Christians start expecting the world to be a friend. They slip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}