{"id":4595,"date":"2024-09-01T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2024-09-01T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T18:30:07","slug":"sermon-9-1-2024-church-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4595","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 9\/1\/2024: &#8220;Church Attendance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png 168w, https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-102x150.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ross-240901-Churrch-Attendance.mp3\">Church Attendance<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deuteronomy 4:1-2; James 1:22-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The very first thing that Israel was commanded to do was to hear, to perceive, to become aware of a God\u2019s Word.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God speaks, and the only way to know what God speaks is to listen, to hear Him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s very easy and very common for people to impose their own understanding on God\u2019s Word, to see in God\u2019s Word what <em>we<\/em> want to see, rather than what God wants to show us.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is often done through a process called <em>equivocation<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I don\u2019t mean to pick on politics, but we are inundated with it! We are drowning in equivocation!<br>I bring it up because it is a religious issue, a spiritual concern, and a biblical heresy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(This is just a teaser. If you want to know more, listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ross-240825-Empty-Armor.mp3\">sermon<\/a>.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday morning messages are available on the website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio\">www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue here is Truth, knowing the Truth, knowing what is true, what is real, and what is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}