{"id":5598,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/noblesse-oblige\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","slug":"noblesse-oblige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/noblesse-oblige\/","title":{"rendered":"Noblesse Oblige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As D. T. Niles once said, &#8220;Jesus Christ is not a value that we can negotiate, nor is he a preference that we can reject.  He is the truth, and the truth cannot be changed.&#8221;  Niles, a famous Christian leader from what is now called Sri Lanka, was once asked, &#8220;How do you present Jesus in Hindu Ceylon?&#8221;  With a smile he said, &#8220;Oh, I repeat the words of Jesus, `No man comes to the Father but by me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We celebrate the kingship of Christ this day because he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life &#8212; King of Kings and Lord of Lords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As D. T. Niles once said, &#8220;Jesus Christ is not a value that we can negotiate, nor is he a preference that we can reject. He is the truth, and the truth cannot be changed.&#8221; Niles, a famous Christian leader from what is now called Sri Lanka, was once asked, &#8220;How do you present Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1481,896,1479,1480,113,1482],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598"}],"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=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}