{"id":7731,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/confronting-the-spirit-of-the-age\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","slug":"confronting-the-spirit-of-the-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/confronting-the-spirit-of-the-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting the Spirit of the Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. G. Campbell Morgan said,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not here to capture the spirit of the age but to correct it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p>Another version from Tom Walker, Zion Hill Baptist Church:<\/p>\n<p>Someone told G. Campbell Morgan that the preacher must catch the spirit of the age.  Immediately the great preacher responded by saying: &#8220;God forgive that preacher who does that &#8211; the preacher&#8217;s business is to correct the spirit of the age, not to catch it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                                Zodhiates&#8217;Illustrations of Bible Truths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. G. Campbell Morgan said, &#8220;We are not here to capture the spirit of the age but to correct it.&#8221; __________________________ Another version from Tom Walker, Zion Hill Baptist Church: Someone told G. Campbell Morgan that the preacher must catch the spirit of the age. Immediately the great preacher responded by saying: &#8220;God forgive that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[333,334,332],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731"}],"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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}