{"id":9954,"date":"2016-08-17T00:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/holyspirit-neglect-of-pastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:50:39","slug":"holyspirit-neglect-of-pastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/holyspirit-neglect-of-pastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLY\nSPIRIT: NEGLECT OF; PASTORAL MINISTRY: NEED FOR SPIRITUAL REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cIt is one thing,\u201d said Henry Suso, \u201cto hear for oneself a sweet lute, sweetly played, and quite another thing merely to hear about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>And it is one thing, we may add, to hear truth inwardly for one\u2019s very self, and quite another thing merely to hear <i>about<\/i> it.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We are turning out from the Bible schools of this country year after year young men and women who know the theory of the Spirit-filled life but do not enjoy the experience. These go out into the churches to create in turn a generation of Christians who have never felt the power of the Spirit and who know nothing personally about the inner fire. The next generation will drop even the theory. That is actually the course some groups have taken over the past years.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>One word from the lips of the man who has actually heard the lute play will have more effect than a score of sermons by the man who has only heard that it was played. Acquaintance is always better than hearsay.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Luke 24:32; Ephesians 5:18\u201319; Colossians 3:16\u201318; 2 Timothy 3:13\u201317<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>The Root of the Righteous,<\/i> 99, 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is one thing,\u201d said Henry Suso, \u201cto hear for oneself a sweet lute, sweetly played, and quite another thing merely to hear about it.\u201d And it is one thing, we may add, to hear truth inwardly for one\u2019s very self, and quite another thing merely to hear about it.\u2026 We are turning out from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/holyspirit-neglect-of-pastoral-ministry-need-for-spiritual-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOLY<br \/>\nSPIRIT: NEGLECT OF; PASTORAL MINISTRY: NEED FOR SPIRITUAL REALITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","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=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}