{"id":11685,"date":"2025-07-24T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11685"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T00:03:13","slug":"eighth-sunday-of-pentecost-a-july-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/?p=11685","title":{"rendered":"Eighth Sunday of Pentecost -A- July 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Dealing with issues-teens. Host discussion nights for teens to deal with social issues and help educate about them. Too often the church has been silent and many church members hold liberal ideas because that is all they hear. The church cannot convince the world that God\u2019s way is better simply by claiming God said it, because those who don\u2019t believe in God feel it is just your opinion and no better than that of anyone else. God created us and knows what is best for us but we must back our defense of Christian values with facts and demonstrate through our lives and the witness of the church that God\u2019s ways are best. I have done a series of courses on social issues dealing with the values laid down in the Bible and how they differ from those who do not know the teaching of the Bible. It is good to have such sessions with adults also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dealing with issues-teens. Host discussion nights for teens to deal with social issues and help educate about them. Too often the church has been silent and many church members hold liberal ideas because that is all they hear. The church cannot convince the world that God\u2019s way is better simply by claiming God said it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,32,26],"tags":[44,53,49],"class_list":["post-11685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-ministry","category-faith-in-practice","category-pentecost","tag-church-ministry-2","tag-faith-in-practice","tag-pentecost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11686,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodministries.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}