{"id":6279,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/you-wouldnt-follow-him-today\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:11","slug":"you-wouldnt-follow-him-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/you-wouldnt-follow-him-today\/","title":{"rendered":"You Wouldn&#8217;t Follow Him Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ganz Cooney, head of Children&#8217;s Television Network, said this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people who call themselves Christian would not follow Jesus if he returned today.  His teachings were, after all, very radical &#8211; love your enemies, turn the other cheek, shelter the homeless, feed the hungry &#8230; I am not strong enough to be a true follower.  A true follower, I believe, would have to take a vow of poverty.  Jesus was quite clear on that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>From \u201cContext,\u201d 4\/1\/88<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Ganz Cooney, head of Children&#8217;s Television Network, said this: \u201cMost people who call themselves Christian would not follow Jesus if he returned today. His teachings were, after all, very radical &#8211; love your enemies, turn the other cheek, shelter the homeless, feed the hungry &#8230; I am not strong enough to be a true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[359,1408,114,1409,182,1407,791,838],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279"}],"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=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}