{"id":140,"date":"2021-01-19T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=140"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:18:53","slug":"2020-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"2020 Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h3>Where should we focus our ministries \u2013 personally and corporately \u2013as we seek to strengthen Christian witness in a post-Christian culture?<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In these days when there are so many external and even internal pressures ranged against the Christian church, and where intolerance and persecution seem to be gathering strength and boldness, we need to gird ourselves for the changing landscape that lies ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>If the Christian life is anything, then surely it is a journey. We should not be surprised, then, that the landscape will change \u2013 sometimes quickly and dramatically. This should not alarm us.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where should we focus our ministries \u2013 personally and corporately \u2013as we seek to strengthen Christian witness in a post-Christian culture? In these days when [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}