{"id":7242,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/crisis-or-process\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","slug":"crisis-or-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/crisis-or-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Or Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were discussing the experiences of the deeper Christian life.  One asked, \u201cIs heart holiness a crisis or a process?\u201d  The other replied by asking a question: \u201cHow did you get from the town where you live to this place?\u201d  \u201cI came by train,\u201d was the answer.  \u201cAnd did the train bring you by one sudden jump into this town?\u201d  \u201cOh, no,\u201d he replied.  \u201cI kept coming along more and more.\u201d  \u201cBut when you boarded the train, how did you do it?  Was it \u2018more and more\u2019?\u201d  \u201cNo,\u201d said he, \u201cI stepped in all at once.\u201d  \u201cExactly,\u201d said the godly minister; \u201cyou stepped in instantly &#8212; that was a crisis; and as you journeyed you kept getting nearer and nearer to your final objective &#8212; that was a process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Choice Illustrations\u201d W.W. Clay, pp. 18-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were discussing the experiences of the deeper Christian life. One asked, \u201cIs heart holiness a crisis or a process?\u201d The other replied by asking a question: \u201cHow did you get from the town where you live to this place?\u201d \u201cI came by train,\u201d was the answer. \u201cAnd did the train bring you by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,2921,1419],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242"}],"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=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}