{"id":50039,"date":"2015-05-29T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reform_ireland_where_do_irish_christians_go_from_here\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:45:55","slug":"reform_ireland_where_do_irish_christians_go_from_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50039","title":{"rendered":"(Reform Ireland) Where do Irish Christians go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where do Irish Christians go from here?  Ireland is spiritually and morally bankrupt, at war with itself, and Hell-bent, detesting the idea of Christianity &#8211; at least the version of it that has been presented to it by the Roman Catholic church.  But in one sense, nothing has changed.  We know already from the Scriptures that Jesus said: \u201d\u02dcwide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.   But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14).  This is and will always remain true no matter what decisions nations and individuals take.<\/p>\n<p>So, where do we go from here?  Well, like the Apostle Paul, our ambition in Ireland is simply to preach the Gospel where Christ is not known (Romans 15:20).  In Ireland, the vast majority \u201d\u02dcknow\u2019 Christ as only a swear word, or as a distant, cold stone statue figure at best.  But our ambition, as Irish Christians, as Evangelicals, is to bring the Gospel afresh to this generation of Irish to know Him as their loving Lord and Saviour.  To preach the Gospel, was \u201d\u02dcalways\u2019 Paul\u2019s ambition in life, and this ambition should grip every Evangelical and every Evangelical church in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reform-ireland.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/where-do-irish-christians-go-from-here\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do Irish Christians go from here? Ireland is spiritually and morally bankrupt, at war with itself, and Hell-bent, detesting the idea of Christianity &#8211; at least the version of it that has been presented to it by the Roman<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50039\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,576,74,409,199,168,325,98,154,151,108,364,112,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ireland","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039","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=50039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}