{"id":1309,"date":"2012-03-08T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-03-08T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:21:08","slug":"1-corinthians-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 1:17"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel\u2014not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes we make the gospel too complex. In our quest for more information, we need to be reminded that when we stray from the simple message that Jesus Christ died for our sins, rose from the dead, and offers us new life in Him, we lose the power that can change lives. Don\u2019t let the simplicity of the message fool you\u2013it takes a lifetime to get our lives in line with resurrection power. John Wimber once said, \u201cThe way in is the way on.\u201d ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel\u2014not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power Sometimes we make the gospel too complex. In our quest for more information, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,1],"tags":[24,57],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites","category-new-testament","category-readings","tag-corinthians","tag-new-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}