{"id":5130,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/what-are-you-giving-now\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:13","slug":"what-are-you-giving-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/what-are-you-giving-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Giving Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A church member was expecting $300,000 in a will from a family member.  The member said to the pastor, &#8220;If I get the $300,000 I will give one-third to the church.&#8221;  The pastor said, &#8220;How will you give one-third of this amount when you can&#8217;t give one-tenth of what you now earn?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what we would do if we had much money &#8211; it&#8217;s what we are doing with what we have now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church member was expecting $300,000 in a will from a family member. The member said to the pastor, &#8220;If I get the $300,000 I will give one-third to the church.&#8221; The pastor said, &#8220;How will you give one-third of this amount when you can&#8217;t give one-tenth of what you now earn?&#8221; It&#8217;s not what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1223,2102,436],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130"}],"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=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}