{"id":8106,"date":"2023-12-15T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:43:38","slug":"why-devotion-to-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8106","title":{"rendered":"Why Devotion to the Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The primary purpose of the Christian <br>Is the glory of God. <br>The primary means of His glorification,<br>Ordained by God, <em>is the Church<\/em>!<br>So the edification of the Church is<br><em>Top priority for the Christian<\/em>.<br>Strengthen the Church and, as a member,<br>Do right!  Seek justice.\u00a0 Serve the weak.<br>Don&#8217;t sit on your duff and praise Him<br>From your chair or &#8220;commune&#8221; on line<br>In lieu of the gathering!<br>Serve Him with works: the <em>love of the brethren<\/em><br>And the unadulterated proclamation of the Gospel.<br>Maintain <em>church discipline<\/em> so that His name<br>Is not disgraced my the membership of malefactors,<br>But is a cause of commendation and praise by observers.<br>Make it <em>what it is supposed to be<\/em>: the Saints of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Dec., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary purpose of the Christian Is the glory of God. The primary means of His glorification,Ordained by God, is the Church!So the edification of the Church isTop priority for the Christian.Strengthen the Church and, as a member,Do right! Seek justice.\u00a0 Serve the weak.Don&#8217;t sit on your duff and praise HimFrom your chair or &#8220;commune&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,12,54,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106"}],"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=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}