{"id":785,"date":"2008-06-18T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/06\/18\/listening-to-sermons-on-my-way-to-camp\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:06:39","slug":"listening-to-sermons-on-my-way-to-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/06\/18\/listening-to-sermons-on-my-way-to-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"listening to sermons on my way to camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and blogging about them out of doors, with the sounds of my family enjoying themselves and me obsessively reading the latest in the unending fundi-neo wars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine asked me to listen to two messages preached recently by two men of similar age and relatively similar standing in the world. So my son and I listened to them on the way to camp. Here is our take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One preacher knows what worldliness is; one thinks its very complicated.<\/li>\n<li>One is clear; one is vague.<\/li>\n<li>One is proud of his heritage; one isn&#8217;t so sure.<\/li>\n<li>One is determined not to allow corruption any possibility of infiltration; one thinks we need to think it over oh so carefully.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One wonders what kind of impact these differences will have on the Christian church in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>~~~<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also noticed another preacher taking potshots at this space. I&#8217;ll not name the preacher, or where it was done, but it is typical of the individual involved. May God help him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/don-sig28.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and blogging about them out of doors, with the sounds of my family enjoying themselves and me obsessively reading the latest in the unending fundi-neo wars&#8230; A friend of mine asked me to listen to two messages preached recently by two men of similar age and relatively similar standing in the world. So my son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[71,42,44,67],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-cF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}