{"id":187,"date":"2005-05-14T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/chinese-water-torture-evangelism\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T02:41:24","slug":"chinese-water-torture-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/chinese-water-torture-evangelism\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese water torture evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many Christians think they&#8217;re supposed to inject religious words into their conversation (&#8220;After all, he says his word will not return void!&#8221;) &#8211; the Chinese water torture method of evangelism. But I don&#8217;t think that bears any fruit. We&#8217;re supposed to not cast pearls before swine, to refrain from saying things that people wouldn&#8217;t understand or appreciate anyway. I like the times when an honest answer to their question unavoidably gives glory to God. When I really did trust God,  not just was supposed to have trusted to God. &#8220;Well, you know, I just need to depend on God&#8217;s strength day by day&#8221; but I have to be careful to say that only when I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many Christians think they&#8217;re supposed to inject religious words into their conversation (&#8220;After all, he says his word will not return void!&#8221;) &#8211; the Chinese water torture method of evangelism. But I don&#8217;t think that bears any fruit. We&#8217;re supposed to not cast pearls before swine, to refrain from saying things that people wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-heresies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}