{"id":58,"date":"2024-11-25T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/25\/apologetics-substance-and-style\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:05:00","slug":"apologetics-substance-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/25\/apologetics-substance-and-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologetics &#8211; Substance and Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p _msthash=\"242622\" _msttexthash=\"5495555\">&nbsp;There are some apologists for the faith who have great content but fail the test of a real apologist.<\/p>\n<blockquote _msthidden=\"1\" style=\"border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p _msthash=\"242622\" _msttexthash=\"34643713\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/2ti\/2\/24\/s_1127025\" target=\"_blank\">2 Timothy 2:25-26<\/a> In <b>meekness<\/b> instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p _msthash=\"242622\" _msttexthash=\"10738\">In our enthusiasm to share the truth of Christ and His Body, the Church, may we keep Hs Spirit at the top of our mind and act as He acts. It&#8217;s as important how we say something as what we say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;There are some apologists for the faith who have great content but fail the test of a real apologist. 2 Timothy 2:25-26 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}