{"id":46772,"date":"2022-10-01T02:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-church-of-god-grill-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:32:44","slug":"the-church-of-god-grill-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-church-of-god-grill-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church Of God Grill – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of his books, Charles Paul Conn recalls the beginning to an unusual phone call. Conn had seen a Yellow Pages listing for a restaurant in Atlanta called Church of God Grill.<\/p>\n

Curious about the odd name, he dialed the number and got the owner. Hello, said a cheery voice on the phone, Church of God Grill. Conn asked how the diner had been given such an unusual name.<\/p>\n

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Well, the man began, We started a little church down here, and we started selling chicken dinners after church on Sunday to help pay the bills. People liked the chicken, and we did such a good business, that eventually we cut back on the church service. After a while we just closed down the church altogether and kept on serving the chicken dinners. We kept the name we started with, and that’s Church of God Grill<\/strong> (source)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What’s the moral of the above story? Churches that do not have a clear sense of purpose, simply drift toward pleasing the greatest number of people.<\/p>\n

Brethren, as members of the Lord’s church, let us continue to be the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15), and continue to uphold, defend, and proclaim God’s truth (John 17:17) that souls might be saved (1 Peter 1:6-9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of his books, Charles Paul Conn recalls the beginning to an unusual phone call. Conn had seen a Yellow Pages listing for a restaurant in Atlanta called Church of God Grill. Curious about the odd name, he dialed the number and got the owner. Hello, said a cheery voice on the phone, Church … Continue reading “The Church Of God Grill – 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-46772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46772","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=46772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}