{"id":5922,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/he-recognized-the-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","slug":"he-recognized-the-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/he-recognized-the-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"He Recognized the Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Goodine shares a story about her friend who decided to talk to her bright four-year-old son, Benji, about receiving Christ.  \u201cBenji,\u201d she asked quietly, \u201cwould you like to have Jesus in your heart?\u201d  Benji thought for a few minutes and then rolling his blue eyes answered, \u201cNo.  I don&#8217;t think I want the responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benji realized what many Christians still have not figured out: salvation is a free gift but it comes with some strings attached.  Service is not an option for a follower of Jesus \u2013 it is a natural outgrowth of our relationship with Christ.  Are you serving the Lord?<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Contributed by R. Darrel Davis<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #27605]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Goodine shares a story about her friend who decided to talk to her bright four-year-old son, Benji, about receiving Christ. \u201cBenji,\u201d she asked quietly, \u201cwould you like to have Jesus in your heart?\u201d Benji thought for a few minutes and then rolling his blue eyes answered, \u201cNo. I don&#8217;t think I want the responsibility.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3381,3380,3379,3382,371],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922"}],"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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}