{"id":10314,"date":"2012-01-07T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2012-01-07T12:27:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T17:27:48","slug":"holy-missionaries-hedonistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2012\/01\/07\/holy-missionaries-hedonistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Missionaries Are Most Hedonistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;In recounting the main characteristics of this movement, Grant puts &#8220;glad obedience&#8221; at the top of the list: &#8220;In the first place, the missionary obedience of the Moravian Brethren was essentially glad and spontaneous, &#8216;the response of a healthy organism to the law of its life.'&#8221;[24]<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Murray refers to this &#8220;law of life&#8221; in his missionary classic, Key to the Missionary Problem.  Nature teaches us that every believer should be a soul-winner: &#8220;It is an essential part of the new nature.  We see it in every child who loves to tell of his happiness and to bring others to share his joys.&#8221;[25]  Missions is the automatic outflow and overflow of love for Christ.  We delight to enlarge our joy in Him by extending it to others.<br \/>\n&#8212; John Piper (Desiring God, pp 245)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;In recounting the main characteristics of this movement, Grant puts &#8220;glad obedience&#8221; at the top of the list: &#8220;In the first place, the missionary obedience of the Moravian Brethren was essentially glad and spontaneous, &#8216;the response of a healthy organism to the law of its life.&#8217;&#8221;[24] Andrew Murray refers to this &#8220;law of life&#8221; in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}