After the service last night, a young man (he looked to be a in his mid to later 20’s) came up to be and talked to me about the preaching that comes through the mission. He talked about how the hard hell-fire preaching seems to be useless and ineffective. I think this is a good lesson to myself and all preachers. There is a ditch on both sides of the road. God is just and loving. Jesus is receptive to those that come, but a cross is required. Let this be a lesson. Gospel preaching without the love and grace of God, is harsh and unreasonable. Gospel preaching without the demands of repentance and self-denial, is irrelevant, untruthful and produces false converts.<\/p>\n
After the service last night, a young man (he looked to be a in his mid to later 20’s) came up to be and talked to me about the preaching that comes through the mission. He talked about how the hard hell-fire preaching seems to be useless and ineffective. I think this is a good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous-audio","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pacific_garden_mission_service.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/8112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}