{"id":1411,"date":"2022-03-30T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:06:53","slug":"join-us-this-sunday-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Join Us This Sunday @ 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hope-failure-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hope-failure-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hope-failure-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hope-failure--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hope-failure--768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has there ever been a time in your life where you were closer to God than you are now? If so ,my dear friend, you are backslidden! Perhaps you have tried to confess, to forsake your sins, to start doing right, only to fall short once again. You have trusted Jesus to save you once upon a time, but it seems as though God is done with you. Perhaps you have reaped the bitter consequences of your mistakes and it seems as though you have been put on the shelf by God, consigned to a life of misery and defeat. THERE IS HOPE! The very same Jesus that pulled you up out of the miry clay, saved you, and set your feet upon The Rock, is the Same One that holds you firmly in His nail &#8211; scarred hand! You have God\u2019s word in that! Drop your anchor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has there ever been a time in your life where you were closer to God than you are now? If so ,my dear friend, you are backslidden! Perhaps you have tried to confess, to forsake your sins, to start doing right, only to fall short once again. You have trusted Jesus to save you once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/?p=1411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Join Us This Sunday @ 11<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.ebcct.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}