{"id":4754,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/we-fully-expect-god-to-be-in-our-church-tonight\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","slug":"we-fully-expect-god-to-be-in-our-church-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/we-fully-expect-god-to-be-in-our-church-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"We Fully Expect God To Be In Our Church Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Christmas Eve the telephone rang in the office of the pastor of the church in Washington, D.C., that President Franklin Roosevelt attended.  \u201cTell me, Reverend,\u201d the voice inquired, \u201care you holding a Christmas Eve service tonight?\u201d  When advised that there would certainly be a service that evening, the caller asked, \u201cAnd do you expect President Roosevelt to attend your church tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat,\u201d explained the pastor patiently, \u201cI can&#8217;t promise.  I&#8217;m not sure about the President&#8217;s plans for this evening.  But I can say that we fully expect God to be in our church tonight, and we feel secure in the knowledge that His attendance will attract a reasonably large congregation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Christmas Eve the telephone rang in the office of the pastor of the church in Washington, D.C., that President Franklin Roosevelt attended. \u201cTell me, Reverend,\u201d the voice inquired, \u201care you holding a Christmas Eve service tonight?\u201d When advised that there would certainly be a service that evening, the caller asked, \u201cAnd do you expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2997,200,1869],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754"}],"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=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}