{"id":3593,"date":"2022-09-25T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2022-09-25T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T00:43:46","slug":"the-pursuit-of-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3594\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920-676x451.jpg 676w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/church-g9dbc3a12e_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of preaching is not preaching. That is idolatry.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of preaching is not response or results. That is not only idolatry, but a fool\u2019s errand.<\/p>\n<p>Faithfulness? Yes, but not quite.<\/p>\n<p>Anointing? Yes, but not quite.<\/p>\n<p>What then?<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of preaching is God.<\/p>\n<p>When God is our pursuit in preaching, He will see that we have whom we seek.<\/p>\n<p>Only then will we be in a position for Him to give Himself through us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pursuit of preaching is not preaching. That is idolatry. The pursuit of preaching is not response or results. That is not only idolatry, but a fool\u2019s errand. Faithfulness? Yes, but not quite. Anointing? Yes, but not quite. What then? The pursuit of preaching is God. When God is our pursuit in preaching, He will [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preaching","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-VX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","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=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}