{"id":1039,"date":"2020-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/spiritual_hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:27:45","slug":"spiritual_hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/spiritual_hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church as a whole in America has been shrinking in number and weakening in its impact, and the society continues to fall into greater moral decadence and tribal division. Perhaps we as God\u2019s people have quenched God\u2019s blessing because we\u2019ve been playing the part of \u201clittle Christs\u201d instead of being the real thing. May the Lord restore the integrity of our lives, and then the power of the Church, and then His blessing on our land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church as a whole in America has been shrinking in number and weakening in its impact, and the society continues to fall into greater moral decadence and tribal division. Perhaps we as God\u2019s people have quenched God\u2019s blessing because we\u2019ve been playing the part of \u201clittle Christs\u201d instead of being the real thing. May the Lord restore the integrity of our lives, and then the power of the Church, and then His blessing on our land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,291,294,197],"university":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-repentance","tag-seeking-god-in-september-2020","tag-sin","tag-theology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}