{"id":5119,"date":"2021-09-16T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:50:22","slug":"a-kiwanis-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"A Kiwanis Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Object #1 of Kiwanis per their website at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwanis.org\/about\/values\"> https:\/\/www.kiwanis.org\/about\/values<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah!\u00a0 And what is the &#8220;spiritual&#8221; all about?\u00a0 What does the &#8220;spirit&#8221; need most of all?\u00a0 How is the spirit best served?\u00a0 What is the first thing that must be addressed regarding the spirit?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about its depravity, its downfall, its corruption &#8211; by sin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm.\u00a0 If you address matters of the body, but neglect the spirit, you have done only half the job.\u00a0 And we don&#8217;t want to do things in a half-assed manner. Deal with the whole person by means of the whole truth &#8211; which necessarily includes the GOSPEL!  Indeed, the spirit of mankind is depraved by sin and in need of salvation.  And that fix comes necessarily by that Good News about the Savior who took care of the sin problem.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Sept. 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Object #1 of Kiwanis per their website at https:\/\/www.kiwanis.org\/about\/values &#8220;To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.&#8221; Ah!\u00a0 And what is the &#8220;spiritual&#8221; all about?\u00a0 What does the &#8220;spirit&#8221; need most of all?\u00a0 How is the spirit best served?\u00a0 What is the first thing that must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,9,30,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}