{"id":797,"date":"2011-07-15T04:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=797"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:20:17","slug":"modern-church-machinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Modern Church Machinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cFAITH OMNIPOTENT\u201d <\/em><br \/>\nFriends! the Churches of Christ have no need of\u00a0<strong>the Modern<br \/>\nMachinery<\/strong> which has supplanted the Simplicity of Faith.<br \/>\nI verily believe, if the Lord swept the church committees<br \/>\nand missionary societies out of the universe, we would be<br \/>\nbetter without them.<br \/>\nI hope the Church will soon say, like David in Saul\u2019s clanking<br \/>\narmor, \u201cI cannot go with these, for I have not tested them,\u201d<br \/>\nand with only her sling and her stone, confident in her God,<br \/>\nI trust she will confront her foe.<br \/>\n<strong>We Can Do All Things, If We Can but Trust Christ.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cAll things are possible to him that believes.\u201d<br \/>\nBut nothing is possible to your schemes, and to your systems.<br \/>\nGod will sweep them away yet, and happy shall be that<br \/>\nman who shall lead the van in their utter destruction!<br \/>\nGo up against her, take away her bulwarks, for they are not<br \/>\nthe Lord\u2019s; he did not ordain them, nor will he stand by them.<br \/>\nAct in faith, O you people of God, and prove the power of<br \/>\nprayer, for \u201call things are possible to him that believes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, God does not need our power, but our weakness;<br \/>\nnot our greatness, but our nothingness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon, \u201cFAITH OMNIPOTENT\u201d Friends! the Churches of Christ have no need of\u00a0the Modern Machinery which has supplanted the Simplicity of Faith. I verily believe, if the Lord swept the church committees and missionary societies out of the universe, we would be better without them. I hope the Church will soon say, like David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-the-called"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}