A church once stood for truth and right;
To have it preached was its delight;
But things today are not the same;
Alas! Has all gone down the drain?<\/p>\n
That church is now an empty shell;
Poured out is truth it would not tell;
Its message now has lost its ring,
As with the world it has its fling.<\/p>\n
O church, shape up! And be yourself;
Standup; speak up, for were not deaf;
Again speak up with certain sound;
The word of truth and right expound!<\/p>\n
James E. Gibbons, The Sword and Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A church once stood for truth and right; To have it preached was its delight; But things today are not the same; Alas! Has all gone down the drain? That church is now an empty shell; Poured out is truth it would not tell; Its message now has lost its ring, As with the world … Continue reading “O Church, Shape Up! Stand Up! Speak Up! – Bible study”<\/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-45715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45715","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=45715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}