{"id":41386,"date":"2013-12-04T22:25:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_seminary_leader_testifies_about_when_god_came_through_when_finances_were_\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T22:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:25:38","slug":"a_seminary_leader_testifies_about_when_god_came_through_when_finances_were_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41386","title":{"rendered":"A Seminary Leader Testifies about When God came through As Finances Were Tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can imagine how my heart raced. I was told that the amount exceeded $500,000 \u201d\u201c an unheard of sum in those days. (It actually ended up being well above that \u201d\u201c but read on.) There was just one hitch: The man had insisted in his will that the money go only for the seminary education&#8230; [under conditions we could not honor].<\/p>\n<p>Still, I didn\u2019t want to let go of an obvious windfall. When the board finally met, they debated the pros and cons, and I made the case for it as best I could. But quietly, I did have my misgivings. When one of our trustees, a bishop, said, \u201cThis has the smell of sulphur about it,\u201d\u009d I realized the die was cast: We could not accept the gift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmichaelschurch.net\/a-most-agonizing-moment-in-my-ministry\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can imagine how my heart raced. I was told that the amount exceeded $500,000 \u201d\u201c an unheard of sum in those days. (It actually ended up being well above that \u201d\u201c but read on.) There was just one hitch:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41386\">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":[48,184,167,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-seminary-theological-education","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41386","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=41386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}