{"id":132194,"date":"2024-10-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132194"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T22:42:06","slug":"wednesday-food-for-thought-from-sam-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132194","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday food for Thought from Sam Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8221;You may be familiar with the often-quoted line, that is wrongly attributed to Francis of Assisi: \u201cAlways preach the Gospel, and if necessary, use words.\u201d2 The sentiment here is partly good; the lifestyle of Christians should not undermine the Gospel, but adorn it. But the logic of the statement is tragic: You can no more preach the Gospel without words than you can feed your Copyright The Falls Church Anglican 5 children dinner without food. The Gospel is news, a message, and it can only be conveyed by speaking words&#8217;&#8211;Sam Ferguson, Falls Church Anglican, Va.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Warm congratulations to Sam Ferguson, announced this morning as the new rector of Falls Church (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anglican?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Anglican<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/parishministry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#parishministry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/virginia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#virginia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFallsChurch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thefallschurch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yh2uDdQpXl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yh2uDdQpXl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6p1UtSXNy\">pic.twitter.com\/w6p1UtSXNy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1018625063812239360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;You may be familiar with the often-quoted line, that is wrongly attributed to Francis of Assisi: \u201cAlways preach the Gospel, and if necessary, use words.\u201d2 The sentiment here is partly good; the lifestyle of Christians should not undermine the Gospel,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132194\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,440,184,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132196,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132194\/revisions\/132196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}