{"id":4758,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/survival-is-not-the-supreme-goal\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:49","slug":"survival-is-not-the-supreme-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/survival-is-not-the-supreme-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Is Not the Supreme Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Call of the Church<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce survival has become our supreme goal, we have lost our way&#8230;, the church is not called to survive history but to serve humanity.  As with each individual, there is a difference between living and existing for the church&#8230;.  The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, and it is through this commitment to serve that we are forced to engage our culture&#8230;.  The serving that we are called to requires direct contact.  You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Erwin Mc Manus, AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE, page 23; contributed by Michael McCartney<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #9191]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Call of the Church \u201cOnce survival has become our supreme goal, we have lost our way&#8230;, the church is not called to survive history but to serve humanity. As with each individual, there is a difference between living and existing for the church&#8230;. The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4220,2649,371,638],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758"}],"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=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}