{"id":7830,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/losing-his-testimony-at-a-party\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:02","slug":"losing-his-testimony-at-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/losing-his-testimony-at-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing His Testimony At A Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A certain titled gentleman was converted.  He loved the Lord a great deal, but he was not well taught in the Scriptures.  He thought that he could continue in some of his worldly engagements and still bear a good testimony.  On one occasion some weeks after he gave his heart to the Lord, this man accepted an invitation to a rather worldly party.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival, one of the guests greeted him with these words: &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad to see you and to know that it isn&#8217;t true.&#8221;  &#8220;I beg your pardon,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t think I quite understand you.&#8221;  &#8220;Why,&#8221; said the other guest, &#8220;rumors were around that you had been converted a few weeks ago; I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re here and to know the rumor was unfounded.&#8221;  &#8220;But it is true!&#8221; the man exclaimed.  Hesitating a moment, he added, &#8220;I see that you think this party is no place for a Christian to be, and you are right.  You will never again see me at such an affair, nor will anyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A certain titled gentleman was converted. He loved the Lord a great deal, but he was not well taught in the Scriptures. He thought that he could continue in some of his worldly engagements and still bear a good testimony. On one occasion some weeks after he gave his heart to the Lord, this man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[601,168,603,97,602],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830"}],"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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}