{"id":2000,"date":"2012-05-06T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:19:51","slug":"the-mighty-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Mighty Magnet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I, if l be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me\u201d<br \/>\n(John 12:32).<\/p>\n<p>Come, ye workers, be encouraged. You fear that you cannot draw a  congregation. Try the preaching of a crucified, risen, and ascended  Savior; for this is the greatest \u201cdraw\u201d that was ever yet manifested  among men. What drew you to Christ but Christ? What draws you to Him now  but His own blessed self? If you have been drawn to religion by  anything else, you will soon be drawn away from it; but Jesus has held  you and will hold you even to the end. Why, then, doubt His power to  draw other? Go with the name of Jesus to those who have hitherto been  stubborn and see if it does not draw them.<\/p>\n<p>No sort of man is beyond this drawing power. Old and young, rich and  poor, ignorant and learned, depraved or amiable\u2013all men shall feel the  attractive force. Jesus is the one magnet. Let us not think of any  other. Music will not draw to Jesus, neither will eloquence, logic,  ceremonial, or noise. Jesus Himself must draw men to Himself; and Jesus  is quite equal to the work in every case. Be not tempted by the  quackeries of the day; but as workers for the LORD work in His own way,  and draw with the LORD\u2019s own cords. Draw to Christ, and draw by Christ,  for then Christ will draw by you.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Spurgeon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty Magnet \u201cAnd I, if l be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me\u201d (John 12:32). Come, ye workers, be encouraged. You fear that you cannot draw a congregation. Try the preaching of a crucified, risen, and ascended Savior; for this is the greatest \u201cdraw\u201d that was ever yet manifested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-successful-saviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}