{"id":775,"date":"2008-07-26T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T05:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2008-07-26T21:49:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T05:49:44","slug":"i-hope-i-made-greg-koukl-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/26\/i-hope-i-made-greg-koukl-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope I made Greg Koukl proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, someone engaged me in a discussion about gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>I searched for the right words to substantiate my views without coming across like a gay basher or intolerant bigot.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the discussion, I was thinking, &#8220;What would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.str.org\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Koukl<\/a> say? How can I be a winsome ambassador for Christ like him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think I carried the conversation too well when the gentleman first approached me. But later on he sought me out to talk again. I was more &#8220;Greg&#8221; the second time by asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>This man was not looking for answers. His mind was made up and he was there to accuse Christians as &#8220;haters&#8221; of homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>But as Greg often says, we are not here to win arguments. But if we can place a bit of doubt into their position, that is sometimes all we can do.<\/p>\n<p>So my last question to this man was, &#8220;Where do you think you will spend eternity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I pray that God will work in his life to bring a transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, someone engaged me in a discussion about gay marriage. I searched for the right words to substantiate my views without coming across like a gay basher or intolerant bigot. Throughout the discussion, I was thinking, &#8220;What would Greg Koukl say? How can I be a winsome ambassador for Christ like him?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}