{"id":5716,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/an-atheist-was-impressed-by-her-honesty\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","slug":"an-atheist-was-impressed-by-her-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/an-atheist-was-impressed-by-her-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"An Atheist Was Impressed By Her Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Pippert, in  Out of the Saltshaker , tells of conversion of an atheist friend.  After she had become a Christian, this friend told Becky it was her open, genuine life that had drawn her to Christ.  &#8220;All my life I used to think, &#8216;How arrogant for someone to call himself a Christian&#8217; &#8230; But then I got to know you &#8212; and Becky, you are far from perfect, yet you call yourself a Christian.  So my first shock was to discover you &#8216;blow it&#8217; like I do.  But the biggest shock was that you admitted it, where I couldn&#8217;t.  Suddenly I saw that being a Christian didn&#8217;t mean never failing, but admitting when you&#8217;ve failed&#8221; (p. 29).  Warns of presenting so &#8220;polished a product&#8221; to people.  (cf. 2 Cor. 4:7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Pippert, in Out of the Saltshaker , tells of conversion of an atheist friend. After she had become a Christian, this friend told Becky it was her open, genuine life that had drawn her to Christ. &#8220;All my life I used to think, &#8216;How arrogant for someone to call himself a Christian&#8217; &#8230; But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,338,2642,3118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716"}],"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=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}