{"id":3470,"date":"2021-12-28T03:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T08:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2021-12-28T03:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T08:23:15","slug":"faithfulness-in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"Faithfulness in the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.&#8221;<\/span> (Hebrews 6:10)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3473\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3-1536x806.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3-676x355.jpg 676w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/resolved-to-read-the-bible-zc7fors3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; there are countless godly, Bible-centered, Christ-proclaiming faithful preachers who expound the Word of God week in week out, year by year, whom God uses greatly in their own congregations even though the wider world has never heard of them.&#8221; (Christopher Catherwood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Martyn-Lloyd-Jones-Life-Relevance-Century\/dp\/1433545950\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1640679462&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Martyn Lloyd-Jones: His Life and Relevance for the 21st Century<\/em><\/a>, p.118)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Labor on in hope, my brothers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.&#8221; (Hebrews 6:10) &#8220;&#8230; there are countless godly, Bible-centered, Christ-proclaiming faithful preachers who expound the Word of God week in week out, year by year, whom God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-ministry","category-preaching","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-TY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}