{"id":1612,"date":"2010-09-13T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"testimony-before-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"Testimony Before The Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse from Colossians 4:5-6 when Paul deals with our <em><strong>testimony before the lost<\/strong><\/em>. Most people want to see us walk before they listen to us talk. The phrase <em><strong>toward them that are without<\/strong><\/em> speaks of the lost. Paul says let us <em><strong>walk in wisdom<\/strong><\/em>. The phrase walk in wisdom means let what I say about\u00a0Christ match what I live out of my life. A great preacher of yesterday Dr.\u00a0Will Houghton was once\u00a0pastor of the great Moody Tabernacle. A group of people hired a private investigator to follow the preacher. The private investigator came back later and said,\u00a0his life matches his preaching. The investigator was later saved by the grace of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse from Colossians 4:5-6 when Paul deals with our testimony before the lost. Most people want to see us walk before they listen to us talk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6103,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/6103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}