{"id":35238,"date":"2012-10-22T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_stott_on_how_opposition_to_christian_truth_unfolds\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:00:29","slug":"john_stott_on_how_opposition_to_christian_truth_unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35238","title":{"rendered":"John Stott on how opposition to Christian truth unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201d\u00a6[The] opposition\u201d\u00a6 [to the Christian gospel in the Book of Acts follows an]\u201d\u00a6 order of events that has often been repeated [throughout history]. At first there is serious theological debate.  When this fails, people start a personal campaign of lies.  Finally, they resort to legal or quasi-legal action in an attempt to rid themselves of their adversary by force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<b>The Message of Acts: The Spirit, The Church and the World<\/b> (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1990), p.127<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d\u00a6[The] opposition\u201d\u00a6 [to the Christian gospel in the Book of Acts follows an]\u201d\u00a6 order of events that has often been repeated [throughout history]. At first there is serious theological debate. When this fails, people start a personal campaign of lies.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35238\">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":[48,186,177,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35238","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=35238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}