{"id":6212,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/is-there-room-in-your-inn\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:35","slug":"is-there-room-in-your-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/is-there-room-in-your-inn\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Room In Your Inn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a famous Christmas sermon, the great reformer Martin Luther described how Mary had to give birth in a stable because there was no room in the inn.  Then Luther turned to his congregation and said, \u201cYou think to yourselves, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t have turned the couple away.  I would have given them my own place.\u2019\u201d  To which Luther replied, \u201cNo, you wouldn\u2019t.  If you would have been so generous, so sacrificial, why aren\u2019t you now?  You meet Christ in your neighbor every day and you are not generous or sacrificial to him now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a famous Christmas sermon, the great reformer Martin Luther described how Mary had to give birth in a stable because there was no room in the inn. Then Luther turned to his congregation and said, \u201cYou think to yourselves, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t have turned the couple away. I would have given them my own place.\u2019\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,376,3436,3858],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212"}],"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=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}