{"id":723,"date":"2021-08-01T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=723"},"modified":"2021-08-07T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:59:36","slug":"sermon20210801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210801\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of a Real Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">The Challenge of a Real Church<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2020\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission<br \/>\nScripture: Romans 12:1-3<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. Michael Lau<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObBLak4MD9k\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2021_0801_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>Romans 12:1-3<\/strong><\/u> (NIV)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Living Sacrifice<\/strong><br \/>\n1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship. 2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God\u2019s will is\u2014his good, pleasing and perfect will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humble Service in the Body of Christ<\/strong><br \/>\n3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Challenge of a Real Church 2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission Scripture: Romans 12:1-3 Speaker: Rev. Michael Lau Romans 12:1-3 (NIV) A Living Sacrifice 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210801\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Challenge of a Real Church&#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":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-sermon","category-outside-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}