{"id":4602,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/last-supper\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:40","slug":"last-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/last-supper\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Thielmann, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, told of a conversation with an active layman, who mentioned, &#8220;You preachers talk a lot about giving, but when you get right down to it, it all comes down to basin theology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thielemann asked, &#8220;Basin theology?  What&#8217;s that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The layman replied, &#8220;Remember what Pilate did when he had the chance to acquit Jesus?  He called for a basin and washed his hands of the whole thing.  But Jesus, the night before his death, called for a basin and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples.  It all comes down to basin theology:  Which one will you use?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Thielmann, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, told of a conversation with an active layman, who mentioned, &#8220;You preachers talk a lot about giving, but when you get right down to it, it all comes down to basin theology.&#8221; Thielemann asked, &#8220;Basin theology? What&#8217;s that?&#8221; The layman replied, &#8220;Remember what Pilate did when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3983,3984,1272,657,402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}