{"id":42234,"date":"2022-09-15T05:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sermonette-to-pray-or-not-to-pray\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:59:59","slug":"sermonette-to-pray-or-not-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sermonette-to-pray-or-not-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermonette: To Pray or Not to Pray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sermonette: To Pray or Not to Pray? <\/p>\n<h3>Praying in Public<br \/> #1367s<br \/> Bill Onisick <br \/>Given 11-Mar-17; 15 minutes <\/h3>\n<p>    listen:           <\/p>\n<p>description: (hide) Jesus Christ assured His disciples that those who are not against us we can consider for us. The apostle Paul rejoiced that, whatever the motives of his &#8216;competitors,&#8217; they were preaching the gospel. It is easy to over-react or go to extremes. Many have over-reacted to Jesus Christ&#8217;s instruction about the hypocrisy of the Pharisees praying in public to be seen by men. Some have over-pivoted concerning giving thanks at a restaurant. Jesus and the disciples prayed in public on many occasions. Jesus gave thanks before 5,000 people in a public place. God certainly will be pleased if we thank Him in a public place. Perhaps, we may need to reconsider our heretofore negative extreme reactions to episodes involving enthusiastic street-corner &#8216;preachers&#8217; and the practice of giving prayers of thanksgiving in public places. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermonette: To Pray or Not to Pray? Praying in Public #1367s Bill Onisick Given 11-Mar-17; 15 minutes listen: description: (hide) Jesus Christ assured His disciples that those who are not against us we can consider for us. The apostle Paul rejoiced that, whatever the motives of his &#8216;competitors,&#8217; they were preaching the gospel. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/sermonette-to-pray-or-not-to-pray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sermonette: To Pray or Not to Pray?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}