{"id":7083,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/are-you-seeking-and-becoming\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","slug":"are-you-seeking-and-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/are-you-seeking-and-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Seeking and Becoming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Sloan Coffin said recently, &#8220;The church is full of people who are seeking that which they have already found and only want to become that which they already are.  And that&#8217;s one of the greatest problems we have in the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>NEWSCOPE LECTURE SERIES &#8212; July 1992, United Methodist Publishing House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Sloan Coffin said recently, &#8220;The church is full of people who are seeking that which they have already found and only want to become that which they already are. And that&#8217;s one of the greatest problems we have in the church.&#8221; ________ NEWSCOPE LECTURE SERIES &#8212; July 1992, United Methodist Publishing House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4952,2913,991,3093,874,4954,4953],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083"}],"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=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}