{"id":1400,"date":"2013-02-27T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:11:19","slug":"the-fastest-way-to-spiritual-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Way to Spiritual Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t ever give up in freedom what we would never have given up in persecution!&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; An elderly Russian pastor to an American missionary interviewing him about the persecution suffered under Communism (<a title=\"The Insanity of God\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Insanity-God-Story-Faith-Resurrected\/dp\/1433673088\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1362001146&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+insanity+of+god+by+nik+ripken\" target=\"_blank\">The Insanity of God<\/a>, p.196)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/martyrdom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1401\" title=\"martyrdom\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/martyrdom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I take this to mean that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>prosperity<\/em> <\/span>is at least as dangerous to our faith as is <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">persecution<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are far more likely to be <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>seduced<\/em> <\/span>into surrendering our faith and its essentials than we are to be <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>scared<\/em> <\/span>out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t ever give up in freedom what we would never have given up in persecution!&#8221; &#8212; An elderly Russian pastor to an American missionary interviewing him about the persecution suffered under Communism (The Insanity of God, p.196) I take this to mean that prosperity is at least as dangerous to our faith as is persecution. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persecution","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-mA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}