{"id":7150,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/amy-carmichael-on-soft-selling-the-gospel-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","slug":"amy-carmichael-on-soft-selling-the-gospel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/amy-carmichael-on-soft-selling-the-gospel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Carmichael On Soft-Selling the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Carmichael, missionary to India, on Christians who are fearful and so soft-sell the gospel:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;If I am afraid to speak the truth because I might lose<br \/>\n       someone&#8217;s love, or am concerned someone should say,<br \/>\n         &#8220;You do not understand&#8221;,<br \/>\n    Or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness;<br \/>\n    If I put my own good name before the other&#8217;s highest good,<br \/>\n       then I know nothing of Calvary love.<\/p>\n<p>    If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace,<br \/>\n       peace, where there is no peace;<br \/>\n    If I forget the poignant words, &#8220;Let love be without<br \/>\n       hypocrisy&#8221; and blunt the edge of truth,<br \/>\n          speaking not right things but smooth things,<br \/>\n    Then I know nothing of Calvary love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Carmichael, missionary to India, on Christians who are fearful and so soft-sell the gospel: &#8220;If I am afraid to speak the truth because I might lose someone&#8217;s love, or am concerned someone should say, &#8220;You do not understand&#8221;, Or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; If I put my own good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,453,220,1641,226,203,1360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150"}],"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=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}