{"id":76,"date":"2009-06-22T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-06-22T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T01:29:52","slug":"live-it-and-speak-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Live it and speak it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;For the love of Christ constrains us.&#8221;  2 Cor. 5:14<em><\/p>\n<p>Ok.  Actions speak louder than words.  That must mean that the gospel in action speaks louder than the gospel in words.  Or, the gospel lived is more important than the gospel spoken.  To earn the right to be heard, we must live the gospel.  But, to be clear to those who are hearing, we must speak the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>And, if we find ourselves too weak or too intimidated to communicate the gospel, either in words or deeds,<br \/>\nwe can pray.  Pray that God will fill our cup so full that the overflow is something we can&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>O dear Christ, constrain me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For the love of Christ constrains us.&#8221; 2 Cor. 5:14 Ok. Actions speak louder than words. That must mean that the gospel in action speaks louder than the gospel in words. Or, the gospel lived is more important than the gospel spoken. To earn the right to be heard, we must live the gospel. But, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Live it and speak it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}