{"id":7081,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/defeated-where-he-thought-he-was-strong\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","slug":"defeated-where-he-thought-he-was-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/defeated-where-he-thought-he-was-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeated Where He Thought He Was Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moral defeat is possible for any of us.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Gordon MacDonald is currently serving a church in Manhattan.  [now is back at Grace Chapel, Lexington, MA]<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago he was pastor of one of the largest churches in New England, and considered as head of Intervarsity.  But news of a short-lived affair surfaced, and he was ruined.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald commented, \u201cI always guarded myself in areas where I knew I was weak.  To my surprise, Satan defeated me in an area where I thought I was strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[see also #376 and #585 and #65938]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral defeat is possible for any of us. Rev. Gordon MacDonald is currently serving a church in Manhattan. [now is back at Grace Chapel, Lexington, MA] A few years ago he was pastor of one of the largest churches in New England, and considered as head of Intervarsity. But news of a short-lived affair surfaced, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4872,873,70,4951],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081"}],"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=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}