{"id":57305,"date":"2017-02-06T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_food_for_thought-i_would_like_to_buy_3_worth_of_god_please\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:37:53","slug":"sunday_food_for_thought-i_would_like_to_buy_3_worth_of_god_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57305","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Food For Thought&#8211;&#8220;\u201cI would like to buy $3 worth of God, please&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a warm cup of milk, or a snooze in the sunshine. I don\u2019t want enough of Him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please\u201d(Wilbur Rees)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Chuck Swindoll comments] That\u2019s it. Our inner \u201d\u02dcself\u2019 doesn\u2019t want to dump God entirely, just keep Him at a comfortable distance. Three dollars of Him is sufficient. A sack full, nothing more. Just enough to keep my guilt level below the threshold of pain, just enough to guarantee escape from eternal flames. But certainly not enough to make me nervous\u201d\u00a6to start pushing around my prejudices or nit-picking at my lifestyle. Enough is enough!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Charles R. Swindoll, <b>Improving Your Serve<\/b>, cited by yours truly in the sermon at the later service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a warm cup of milk, or a snooze in the sunshine. I don\u2019t want enough<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57305\">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":[48,162,184,439,164,34,166,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christology","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-soteriology","category-theology","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57305","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=57305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60062,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57305\/revisions\/60062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}